See the glory of the royal scam
It's been unusually cold in Portland this week, but you don't have to go outside to experience the sweet, sweet smells of waste and graft. All you have to do is go here.
Thirteen hundred a square foot to rehab single-room occupancy. And of course, Chainsaw Rubio is fine with it. Not to mention that nice juicy nonprofit at the helm, along with good old "Prosper Portland." The way they throw money around, it's no wonder we're so prosperous.
This is how your hard-earned Metro homeless taxes are going to be spent, folks. The writing is on the flophouse wall. But hey! Walsh Construction will be busy. And some real estate sharpies will get a huge tax credit. So it's all worth it. Maybe you're just too dumb to understand.
I remember “cold water” flats from the ‘30s And’40s. I also remember that they were used by working men.
ReplyDeleteAnd they wandered in from the city of St. John without a dime.
ReplyDeleteSincere question…….after years of new emergency housing measures which have significantly increased local tax burdens, how could this project go forward? Not a single Portland “leader” who would yell stop for a public expense projected to cost 400% more than current market prices for new construction or acquisition? Of course this news perfectly timed with Guv Kotek announcing this week her state government team will invest a fresh billion dollars of public funds in new housing for the homeless…….no wonder folks voted for the new city governing charter. Regardless of how misguided it surely will be, people are just desperate here for a better future.
ReplyDeleteIt's not coming. If Betsy Johnson couldn't get even 10% of the vote with a few million of Phil Knight's money behind her, the horrible governance here is never going to improve. Portland is headed the way of the Rust Belt cities. Newark and Detroit, here we come, fast. Not to mention the big earthquake possibility. Can you imagine these clowns dealing with that?
DeleteThe Rust Belt isn't pretty. I'm waiting for the subduction to do its thing. Then the Eastsiders will live less than a mile from the Pacific and will be able to see Northern Japan from our houses....
Deletelesson: never should have outlawed single-room occupancy to begin with. But of course the revitalization of downtown, and Homer William's meal ticket Pearl District, never would have happened without it.
ReplyDeleteHammett wrote a novel about Poisonville. Take away the dramatics of the main characters and you have Portland.
ReplyDeleteWe can't ban camping because we don't have enough housing units. We don't have enough housing units because we have pissed most of it away or wont get tough with junkies and say move into this affordable part of town or get the Hell out of Dodge. An infinite circle jerk of limp dildoed dimwits.
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DeleteDid they use 24 karat paint or something? For that kind of money, those should be considered high-end accommodations.
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