Moving on Up: LA and Seattle Homeless
Will Be Relocated to Taxpayer-Funded Luxury Apartments
PJ Media,
by
A.J. Kaufman
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
10/6/2021 1:29:02 AM
Three glistening new buildings in downtown Seattle with 165 studio apartments — originally to be rented at market rates — will instead house the homeless.
The Low Income Housing Institute (LIHI) is buying the buildings with taxpayer dollars for about $50 million, with federal COVID-19 relief funds splitting the cost equally. Seattle City Hall is contributing about $25 million, while also using “American Rescue Plan Act” funds. A large portion comes from Washington State’s Department of Commerce.
Left-wing Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, so unpopular she can’t run for re-election, claims the deals will house people quickly and cheaply, compared to the time and cost required to develop similar projects from scratch.
They won't be glistening for very long. Three new high-rise dumpsters to further blight Stalingrad on the Pacific.
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Soooo somehow it makes sense to the people of Seattle to house 165 people at a cost of 300 thousand each???? Wow they really are smoking a lot of good stuff out there on the left coast.
Oh and that is just the cost of the building other costs? food? electricity? water? etc. etc? Oh and how does one pick the lucky folks out of the 11,751 who are currently homeless in Seatle?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mean Gene 10/6/2021 1:48:41 AM (No. 936569)
Addicts know their best chance of surviving an OD is for them to OD in a public place so someone can call for help.
Studio apartments house one person apiece, two at most.
Expect to find dead bodies in these places on a regular basis.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Annie Xango 10/6/2021 1:48:50 AM (No. 936570)
Oh dear..my BFF lives in an expensive condo downtown...I wonder if these buildings are going to be close to her..
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Birddog 10/6/2021 1:56:07 AM (No. 936571)
Gee...over $300k per homeless individual...from COVID FUNDS! And three upscale buildings removed from paying the property taxes that fund the schools, social services, healthcare...police/Fire.
If you are gonna hand out money? do it in an effective fashion...hand each homeless a check for $10k and a bus ticket out of town, NEVER to return.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BirdsNest 10/6/2021 4:28:19 AM (No. 936591)
What do you think? 6 months? 1 year?
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
anniebc 10/6/2021 4:29:11 AM (No. 936593)
There they go, using taxpayer money to build their communist empires. It starts with the homeless. Which group is to be completely owned by the state next? Can't wait to see how this little experiment plays out. Anyone getting evicted in LA should demand a spot in these deluxe apartments in the sky. And, in what world does 165 STUDIO apartments cost $50 million? Other people's money.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 10/6/2021 5:14:05 AM (No. 936616)
It's the projects, redux.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Krause 10/6/2021 5:19:18 AM (No. 936618)
Sounds like something biden would do. Democrat decision-making, yikes!
19 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Petronius 10/6/2021 5:33:12 AM (No. 936624)
Geez people, the cost is (whisper)... zero dollars.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 10/6/2021 5:51:34 AM (No. 936626)
Any current or former San Franciscans remember when the City by the Bay put up “The Pink Palace”? How long was it before even the SFPD would not go inside? These buildings will quickly become HRSH (High-Rise S*** Holes).
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We used to provide housing for these people. It was called mental institutions .
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 10/6/2021 6:35:37 AM (No. 936643)
FTA:
“This is a first-class building which could be anywhere,” Weingart Center Association President, CEO, and former Democrat Rep. Kevin Murray said. “It’s designed such that without knowing the people in it, you would never know that we were housing formerly homeless people.”
Wanna bet? (Moron)
#12, do you mean homeless people or the politicians?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Strike3 10/6/2021 6:43:25 AM (No. 936645)
No wonder these fools want $5 Trillion of our money. The waste and incompetence is mountainous.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
scottj 10/6/2021 6:43:29 AM (No. 936646)
Nice magnet! Homeless people from all over the country are now heading to Seattle.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Otis Gill 10/6/2021 6:52:34 AM (No. 936654)
A new building does not change a person's character. A drug addict is going to do drugs and bring squalor and chaos wherever they go, probably set up a tent in the living room.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
F15 Gork 10/6/2021 7:04:21 AM (No. 936664)
Now what could possibly go wrong here?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
skacmar 10/6/2021 7:13:35 AM (No. 936667)
Hi-rise buildings and poor drug addicted people don't mix. Will they furnish the apartments or just let them continue to sleep in boxes? What about food and cleaning services. These buildings will soon look like the homeless camps and become unmanageable little Barrios, no go zones run by drug dealers.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
KayJayMac 10/6/2021 7:33:34 AM (No. 936692)
Great. My son and his wife live on Capitol Hill. Maybe this will be the final straw for them.
Everything woke turns to sh..... PDJT
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
downnout 10/6/2021 7:35:26 AM (No. 936693)
Cabrini Green on the left coast.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
homefry 10/6/2021 7:43:40 AM (No. 936701)
Teach a man to fish............
Anything you want more of, just subsidize and it'll grow. Stuff like this will create homelessness like standing water produces mosquitoes.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 10/6/2021 8:00:09 AM (No. 936721)
Where's Sheriff Joe? Can't they set up tent cities on the outskirts of town to house / hold these people? Use vagrancy laws to arrest every last one of them.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 10/6/2021 8:03:34 AM (No. 936726)
You mean FORMER luxury apartments! What could or has gone wrong in these leftwing paradise showcases?
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
hershey 10/6/2021 8:16:28 AM (No. 936739)
They could save a lot of money if they'd just provide new refrigerator boxes for them to live in..they put them into nice places and it won't be long until they look like a ghetto...feces on the floors, needles all over...
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
chance_232 10/6/2021 9:03:20 AM (No. 936780)
Meanwhile, I have to pay for my modest middleclass home.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
udanja99 10/6/2021 9:03:41 AM (No. 936781)
I can’t wait for the before and after photos. If any “journalist” in Seattle has the guts to publish them.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
thehutchcom 10/6/2021 9:08:16 AM (No. 936786)
Very soon you'll be able to shoot another Candyman remake there.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
moebellini3 10/6/2021 9:21:42 AM (No. 936800)
Lol, suckers in Seattle still don't get it. Those apartments will be trashed a month after these sub humans move in. These morons just turned that apartment complex into a drug den where cockroaches will live like kings.
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Have you heard of the Millenial (sp) luxurious apartment 57 story building in downtown Seattle? Maybe they should be housed in this place. Oh. Did I forget to mention. Said apartment complex is leaning. Seems that "they" drove the pilings in to 60 feet of dirt. Problem is...should have been 300+ feet down. Maybe the homeless should be stabled there. They probably would not know the difference if it was straight up or tilting. Problem? Well Seattle does not know which way the building might fall. Meantime it would serve as an excellent building for homeless.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Trapper 10/6/2021 9:34:22 AM (No. 936815)
Homelessness is not the problem. It is a symptom. Some might say the underlying problem is actually untreated drug addiction, but even that is just a symptom. The PROBLEM is that over several decades globalist policies closed American manufacturing plants and shipped 8 million blue collar factory jobs to China. With an average multiplier of 10 for manufacturing jobs, that's 80 million American jobs that evaporated into thin air as a result of globalist policies.
American globalists, primarily via NAFTA, demolished the foundation of the American economy. Every modern social problem you can identify today is traceable to that. And Trump is the only political figure who did anything to bring those jobs back. He was well on the way to fixing the underlying problem when the China flu arrived. Hmmmmm
Trump won.
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
Right Time 10/6/2021 9:36:04 AM (No. 936817)
It would be far less expensive for Seattle to simply buy heroin, fentanyl, meth, and other drugs of choice, in sufficient quantity to freely hand out to the homeless in unlimited quantity, such that they OD themselves
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
smokincol 10/6/2021 9:58:41 AM (No. 936855)
excellent decision you bunch of incompetents!! now you have given these homeless people permission to trash and ruin more property, which doesn't belong to them
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Lessons learned from Pruitt–Igoe soon forgotten and soon to be repeated
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Reply 34 - Posted by:
NotaBene 10/6/2021 11:26:42 AM (No. 936969)
Best cure is arrest for vagrancy, detoxify, work, religion.
And stop voting for the Communist Democratic Party
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Reply 35 - Posted by:
skacmar 10/6/2021 11:29:47 AM (No. 936975)
What happens when some of the drug addled homeless hi-rise residents fall/jump off the balcony of their new home due to being stoned out of their mind?
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Reply 36 - Posted by:
Daisy Mae 10/6/2021 11:47:35 AM (No. 936996)
A slum in the making. I would expect law abiding citizens to vacate the city, and state. Who could live in a cesspool that is SEATLE?
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Reply 37 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/6/2021 11:58:44 AM (No. 937007)
“Luxury apartments”? In Seattle these are micro-apartments, very small studio apartments (that usually means the living room and bedroom are all in one with an adjacent very small kitchenette and a minimal bath. Built for a specific market, I’ll bet they never worked out and had become white elephants on the real estate market.
https://www.nomadicrealestate.com/micro-apartments/
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Reply 38 - Posted by:
earlybird 10/6/2021 12:06:34 PM (No. 937015)
A read of the article reveals that they are about 300 sq.ft. New because the builder saw there was no market for them. “Luxury” is media hyperbole.
But after years of record numbers of cranes on the skyline and thousands of new apartments, the pandemic reshaped the market for some Seattle developers, landlords and renters.
Demand has fallen for newer in-city apartment buildings, a trend marked by landlords offering deals like free months of rent. Rents are down in some areas and eviction moratoriums remain in place. Some renters are seeking more space or no longer striving to be close to bars, restaurants and office buildings; some are moving farther from the city to save money.
On Capitol Hill, rents have dropped for the first time since at least 2011. Rents for new leases on Capitol Hill are down about 7% compared to a year ago, according to data from CoStar. (The same trend has played out in other Seattle neighborhoods, while rents are up outside the city.)
Capitol Hill is the area that was blocked off from the rest of the city by black activists not very long ago. Crime-ridden area. Even the police department for that area was attacked. You do remember that, right?
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Reply 39 - Posted by:
woastew 10/6/2021 12:25:56 PM (No. 937039)
Just build a bunch of quonset huts and make them stay there instead of on our sidewalks and beaches. What's good enough for WW2 soldiers is good enough for homeless....
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Reply 40 - Posted by:
TurtleDove 10/6/2021 1:03:36 PM (No. 937102)
Insanity runs rampant up there doesn't it? OMG. And using taxpayer & covid funds...how nice.
To #5 - NO! Keep them there - we do not want them in our neighborhoods!
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Reply 41 - Posted by:
Videodrone 10/6/2021 1:05:57 PM (No. 937110)
#29 Wrong city - the Millennium Tower is in San Fransisco - they decided to use vacant hotel rooms for homeless and there were is usual stories for a while but haven't seen any in months
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Reply 42 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 10/6/2021 2:29:16 PM (No. 937223)
Cue the music: Janis Joplin's "Mercedes Benz" Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz?
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Reply 43 - Posted by:
JackBurton 10/6/2021 3:24:17 PM (No. 937271)
Why not retask some of the reservations set aside for covid vax resistant people? Put 'em all in there?
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Reply 44 - Posted by:
janjan 10/6/2021 6:47:07 PM (No. 937414)
This has been tried repeatedly and failed repeatedly. The appliances will be sold. The copper pipe will be ripped out and scrapped. The gang members and drug dealers will take over. It won’t take a year. These people are insane.
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Reply 45 - Posted by:
Rush Was Right 10/7/2021 2:45:41 PM (No. 938171)
My new retirement plan: Stop working at 45, move to Seattle, live in one of these apartments, use food stamps to buy my booze, and sit on my butt all day. Can't wait.
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Gosh, what could POSSIBLY go wrong??? Seattle is going to end up with a few luxury condo towers filled to the brim with feces, drugs, used needles and prostitution in the lobby.