Quote Originally Posted by corktownyuppie View Post
I'm pretty lucid.

If you have 200 homeless people in a shelter
Don't confuse things by exaggeration. This wasn't a homeless shelter. It was a section 8 seniors building for rent-paying tenants. Many of whom were retirees from full-time employment and veterans. These people are not trouble-makers, or detrimental to the neighborhood [[except, it now seems, in an economic and aesthetic sense). In fact, until all those pale yuppies suddenly decided they HAD to live downtown, these folks were the neighborhood.

This building was rehabbed with federal money as a seniors' residence when the offices there were no longer economically viable, and when no one else wanted to live downtown. But this program wasn't forced on anybody. The owners of the building made money on the deal, and on the subsequent subsidized rents, that's why they signed up for it.

But now that there's even bigger money to be made from little cell-like apartments, hasta la vista oldies. Here's some packing tape, and an underfunded voucher, bye!