shades of Fountainhead...It is all going to plan. The left wants to destroy Western society and this is one of their ways of doing it.
shades of Fountainhead...So, putting the mentally dysfunctional into nice apartments does not magically change their behavior and make them become model citizens. Interesting, who would have thunk?
Also, I don’t understand the negativity used with the concept of “gentrification.” Seems to me that improving neighborhoods is a good thing.
“We can make this whole cycle way more efficient by simply housing the foxes with the chickens.” /s
And those who have a problem with this transformation of the building are automatically racist. And those who actually move out because of what is happening will soon be labeled and prosecuted for crimes against the diversification collective. sarc/ I hope.
Once again, low information liberals think they can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and they failed.
Has any grandiose liberal fantasy ever borne fruit? (It's a rhetorical question.)
Hope these upscale apartments are liberal bleeding hearts
Half? Half? Half? And some people wonder why there is a problem?
The article references a study that says DC has the most intense gentrification of any U.S. city. I know we have gentrification on steroids, and it's generally a good thing. Viewed broadly, DC still has an excessively high percentage of the region's low-income population. If we've learned anything over the past 50 years, it is that big concentrations of welfare populations breed trouble. That was one of the core mistakes of the Great Society wave of housing projects, which created Petri dishes for disfunction. We are still dismantling that mistake. In the DC area, more of the assisted housing population still needs to be spread to the suburbs. And yes, northwest DC needs to do more as well. Move 'em out. Anacostia is trying to gentrify as well. They've gotta go somewhere.
Spreading out the welfare population is the goal, and every area needs to step up. Housing vouchers at 175 percent of fair market rate, however, are awfully rich. I didn't know DC was doing that. The problem with that is moral hazard; welfare shouldn't pay better than an entry level job or it becomes a trap. We should have learned that lesson as well over the past half-century. But put that aside for the moment.
If the goal is to assist the welfare population in moving out of disastrous neighborhoods, fine … but don't move them and then reconcentrate them in what becomes essentially a new project, albeit one in a swankier neighborhood. That won't work. I don't have a magic percentage in mind, but if this building has 140 units, maybe five could safely be converted to voucher apartments, provided that the recipients were suitably screened (no gangbangers). But half is far too many. And subsidies of 175 percent market rate are ridiculous.
It looks to me like this building's owners are badly mismanaging their property. There is a hint in the article about excessively generous vouchers being used to bust the cap on rent stabilization, which may be the real game here. I'll have to wait for more information on that.
Apparently no one in charge asked this simple question during the planning stage: “What could possibly go wrong?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8pfftpp0lY
Where is Nurse Ratched when you need her?
Liberals have been miseducated to believe that all people are good. They are wrong.
Not as planned, but as expected by anyone with common sense.
The curse of high intelligence is having to watch the morons try everything that you know won't work.
If you could somehow make them understand that they are morons, they might listen to the more intelligent, but the curse of the morons is that they don't know they're morons.
staffing the building with social workers at night
Nobody could have seen this coming.
“some still struggling with severe behavioral problems.”
Translation - people doing as they please with no consequences other than being rewarded with tolerance and understanding for their disgusting behavior.
It buys into the lie that given the same opportunity that a well off or middle class person has (they call it privilege) that you will get an equal outcome. It’s total BS. Ben Shapiro always puts it that the left don’t want equal opportunity (which the USA supplies in abundance) they want equality or outcome or equity. This is a perfect picture of why that rarely works
The only thing I need to know is ...did th owners vote democrat!!!!