New downtown Los Angeles high-rise building to house homeless in $600,000 units

[1srelluc]

New downtown Los Angeles high-rise building to house homeless in $600,000 units

A grand opening ceremony will be held Wednesday for a high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles that will house homeless individuals.

abc7.com

There are 278 units in the 19-story development known as the Weingart Tower. It's intended to help people currently without shelter on Skid Row and it will be L.A.'s largest permanent support housing project.

The building will have an entire floor of offices for case workers, in addition to a list of impressive amenities: a gym, art room, music room, computer room and library.

Residents will enjoy six common balconies and a café.

It's considered affordable housing, but the cost to build this type of project still adds up. Each unit costs nearly $600,000 and it's being funded by taxpayers.

Soon to be known as The Carter.....Managed by drug lord Nino Brown.

We used to those places the “Projects”......It will fail like all public housing but history is never remembered.

Cabrini–Green Homes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

New downtown Los Angeles high-rise building to house homeless in $600,000 units

A grand opening ceremony will be held Wednesday for a high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles that will house homeless individuals.

abc7.com

There are 278 units in the 19-story development known as the Weingart Tower. It's intended to help people currently without shelter on Skid Row and it will be L.A.'s largest permanent support housing project.

The building will have an entire floor of offices for case workers, in addition to a list of impressive amenities: a gym, art room, music room, computer room and library.

Residents will enjoy six common balconies and a café.

It's considered affordable housing, but the cost to build this type of project still adds up. Each unit costs nearly $600,000 and it's being funded by taxpayers.

Soon to be known as The Carter.....Managed by drug lord Nino Brown.

We used to those places the “Projects”......It will fail like all public housing but history is never remembered.

Cabrini–Green Homes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Stop misrepresenting what it is and isn't. Weingart Tower is only one of many buildings of this type that have gone up in LA since around 2008.

LA voters approved funding these types of things. You are attempting to speak of something you obviously know shit about.

LA's skid row is the last of a type of area set aside as homeless encampments like NYC old Bowery district. One would have to go to Vancouver, Canada to find another. Most all American cities gentrified areas like Skid Row and the Bowery and the residents moved or were pushed on.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

It is low income housing. Affordable housing income requirements, a homeless person getting government assistance could never meet. Those people meet the guidelines for low income housing. Everyone is playing with terms.

again, You are attempting to speak of something you obviously know shit about.

your source:
The $165 million project is receiving permanent financing from Proposition HHH, which voters overwhelmingly passed in 2016. The new tower is also receiving state housing funds and $56 million in state tax credits.

Weingart Center Tower

The Weingart Center tower is a large-scale, two-tower, transitional and supportive housing facility located in the Downtown Los Angeles Skid Row area.

swinerton.com

https://www.hacla.org/en/about-section-8/income-limit

Low & Moderate Income Household Levels | Inglewood, CA

Find out what is considered to be a low and moderate income household.

www.cityofinglewood.org

 

[1srelluc]

Maybe Tower of Fail would be a more appropriate name.

For 600K a unit they could have moved them all into decent tiny homes which on the upper end are 70K counting utility hook-up.

Another grifty boondoggle.

 

[odanny]

The new "public housing' where I live is very nice, the small units are like condos. The other public housing was replaced with new condos 25 years ago and this time, they allowed the renters to buy their homes, probably at a discounted rate. Since these places were turned into nice and shiny new complexes, crime has plummeted in these locations.

It's all about the residents taking control of the hood, and in both instances, that has resulted. But the amount of the city budget poured into these places makes it a very expensive bargain, but potentially cheaper in the long haul. I have no idea about all that, really.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Maybe Tower of Fail would be a more appropriate name.

For 600K a unit they could have moved them all into decent tiny homes which on the upper end are 70K counting utility hook-up.

Another grifty boondoggle.

The last time Los Angeles built affordable housing the units cost over a million dollars each, to build. They scrapped the affordable part and sold them off as condos.

 

[odanny]

The last time Los Angeles built affordable housing the units cost over a million dollars each, to build. They scrapped the affordable part and sold them off as condos.

That is everything wrong with government. Every contractor involved is the one charging the most money.

Of course, these projects are done correctly, but the cost is always excessive.

 

[MarathonMike]

Give it a few years. The new wave of homeless housing projects will descend into squalor just like they did in the 60s. We should make the investment into mental institutions that have better staffing and oversight than the old days.

 

[marvin martian]

I have no idea about all that, really.

You should have led with this, because you really are clueless.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Give it a few years. The new wave of homeless housing projects will descend into squalor just like they did in the 60s. We should make the investment into mental institutions that have better staffing and oversight than the old days.

I'd support that. But would they allow you to post from there, the new mental wards?

 

[EvilCat Breath]

That is everything wrong with government. Every contractor involved is the one charging the most money.

Of course, these projects are done correctly, but the cost is always excessive.

The problem really isn't the contractors. The real cost is in the permits and fees the city, county and state charges. Every aspect had dozens of fees, permits and feasibility studies. The Coastal Commission has dozens of their own.

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

This place will be destroyed in a month.

They actually still believe the homeless problem is due to housing.

 

[jackflash]

New downtown Los Angeles high-rise building to house homeless in $600,000 units

A grand opening ceremony will be held Wednesday for a high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles that will house homeless individuals.

abc7.com

There are 278 units in the 19-story development known as the Weingart Tower. It's intended to help people currently without shelter on Skid Row and it will be L.A.'s largest permanent support housing project.

The building will have an entire floor of offices for case workers, in addition to a list of impressive amenities: a gym, art room, music room, computer room and library.

Residents will enjoy six common balconies and a café.

It's considered affordable housing, but the cost to build this type of project still adds up. Each unit costs nearly $600,000 and it's being funded by taxpayers.

Soon to be known as The Carter.....Managed by drug lord Nino Brown.

We used to those places the “Projects”......It will fail like all public housing but history is never remembered.

Cabrini–Green Homes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The insanity continues within Commiefornia like small wonder folks are pulling out of Commiefornia & dropping the statist left ideology for a more realistic/practical ideology that actually benefits society both individually & as a whole. Out here in the north western part of our USA folks in northern Commiefornia are trying their best to divorce Commiefornia & create the 51st state of "JEFFERSON", just like us folks in Eastern Washington desire to become the 51st state in the union named "LIBERTY". It's our farmers is eastern Oregon that are getting tortured the most with high taxes, enviro regs/WATER RESTRICTIONS etc.

Our Liberty state movement was easily put down by Olympia & Salem is doing the same thing to our fellow farmers/small towns down south in eastern Oregon(desert/dryer than a popcorn fart). The lefties have us split up. Screw the states of Liberty & Jefferson like what we need to do, northern California counties, eastern Oregon counties, & eastern Washington counties is relentlessly push for the "Greater State of Idaho" project, which Idaho has already accepted the eastern Oregon counties requesting to become Idahoans. The statist left in all three states mentioned above just will not let us go though many rank & file Oregonian lefties desire to get rid of their conservative eastern Oregon country bumpkins(read below link).

'Greater Idaho' may inspire new push for State of Jefferson in California

The myriad activists for a putative State of Jefferson in the mostly rural counties of Northern California don’t need much prodding to spring into action.

www.vcstar.com

 

[MarathonMike]

I'd support that. But would they allow you to post from there, the new mental wards?

Glad you're on board!

 

[Resnic]

Jesus my wife and I are building a house now that is quite nice on a 3 acre lot with woods behind us on protected land and it cost us less than 1 of those units.

Someone is pocketing a shit load of money.

 

[1srelluc]

Jesus my wife and I are building a house now that is quite nice on a 3 acre lot with woods behind us on protected land and it cost us less than 1 of those units.

Someone is pocketing a shit load of money.

I suspect a lot of union grift.

 

[AZrailwhale]

New downtown Los Angeles high-rise building to house homeless in $600,000 units

A grand opening ceremony will be held Wednesday for a high-rise building in downtown Los Angeles that will house homeless individuals.

abc7.com

There are 278 units in the 19-story development known as the Weingart Tower. It's intended to help people currently without shelter on Skid Row and it will be L.A.'s largest permanent support housing project.

The building will have an entire floor of offices for case workers, in addition to a list of impressive amenities: a gym, art room, music room, computer room and library.

Residents will enjoy six common balconies and a café.

It's considered affordable housing, but the cost to build this type of project still adds up. Each unit costs nearly $600,000 and it's being funded by taxpayers.

Soon to be known as The Carter.....Managed by drug lord Nino Brown.

We used to those places the “Projects”......It will fail like all public housing but history is never remembered.

Cabrini–Green Homes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

That is at Sixth and Towne, a mile or more East and South of skid row. The eastern boundary of skid row is Wall Street, five blocks east of Broadway. I know, I spent nearly a decade working around there. Sixth and Towne was a fairly decent lower class residential/light industrial area.

 

[luiza]

This place will be destroyed in a month.

They actually still believe the homeless problem is due to housing.

Understand and agree your broad sentiment .
But there is a significant number where Housing is a root problem .