Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cause
Posted: Wed January 30, 2019 2:08 pm
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Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cause
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Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Wed January 30, 2019 5:52 pm
No way any of that money gets misused or appropriated poorly.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Wed January 30, 2019 5:54 pm
A final nail in the Pearl Jam coffin.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Wed January 30, 2019 6:06 pm
It seems primarily interested in creating housing that Microsoft’s lower tier employees can potentially benefit from (not a complaint, given the state of housing in this city).verb_to_trust wrote:No way any of that money gets misused or appropriated poorly.
Developers will have access to $225 million in below market interest loans to build units aimed at households with $62,000 to $124,000 annual income. Additionally, $250 million in market rate loans will be extended to build housing for households with less than $48,150 annual income, still well above the poverty line.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Wed January 30, 2019 6:23 pm
This seems like a good idea.McParadigm wrote:It seems primarily interested in creating housing that Microsoft’s lower tier employees can potentially benefit from (not a complaint, given the state of housing in this city).verb_to_trust wrote:No way any of that money gets misused or appropriated poorly.Developers will have access to $225 million in below market interest loans to build units aimed at households with $62,000 to $124,000 annual income. Additionally, $250 million in market rate loans will be extended to build housing for households with less than $48,150 annual income, still well above the poverty line.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Wed January 30, 2019 8:58 pm
Yep. The more housing of any kind that any major city in the West can get, the better.Monkey_Driven wrote:This seems like a good idea.McParadigm wrote:It seems primarily interested in creating housing that Microsoft’s lower tier employees can potentially benefit from (not a complaint, given the state of housing in this city).verb_to_trust wrote:No way any of that money gets misused or appropriated poorly.Developers will have access to $225 million in below market interest loans to build units aimed at households with $62,000 to $124,000 annual income. Additionally, $250 million in market rate loans will be extended to build housing for households with less than $48,150 annual income, still well above the poverty line.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Thu January 31, 2019 7:18 pm
Green Habit wrote: The more housing of any kind that any major cityin the Westwith soaring housing costs can get, the better.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Thu January 31, 2019 8:11 pm
4/5 wrote:Green Habit wrote: The more housing of any kind that any major cityin the Westwith soaring housing costs can get, the better.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Fri February 01, 2019 7:52 am
How is more housing going to help those with severe mental illness or substance abuse? The folks you see on the streets for long periods of time who refuse to stay in shelters? Housing is not their primary problem, and that myth needs to be slain.
Those temporarily out of work normally have some sort of support structure to fall back on, or live in their cars for a couple of months.
Maybe we need to better differentiate between the highly visible homeless that housing has almost no impact on, and the discreet homeless that additional housing stock may marginally benefit.
Those temporarily out of work normally have some sort of support structure to fall back on, or live in their cars for a couple of months.
Maybe we need to better differentiate between the highly visible homeless that housing has almost no impact on, and the discreet homeless that additional housing stock may marginally benefit.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Tue February 05, 2019 3:37 pm
I don’t get this. Why should we encourage more and more people to be crammed into existing developed areas? Seems like planned suburban communities would allow for a more sustainable world going forwardGreen Habit wrote:4/5 wrote:Green Habit wrote: The more housing of any kind that any major cityin the Westwith soaring housing costs can get, the better.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Tue February 05, 2019 4:51 pm
Or we could just kill all the rich people
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Tue February 05, 2019 6:13 pm
starting with jorge and dougLoathedVermin72 wrote:Or we could just kill all the rich people
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Tue February 05, 2019 6:23 pm
Before I respond, I'd like for you to expound on how you're defining "planned suburban community".Bi_3 wrote:I don’t get this. Why should we encourage more and more people to be crammed into existing developed areas? Seems like planned suburban communities would allow for a more sustainable world going forward
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Tue February 05, 2019 6:25 pm
I mean that's one way to frame it. I'd ask why should we prevent desperately wanted housing from being built instead of letting the market solve this government (read: homeowner NIMBY) created housing shortage.Bi_3 wrote:I don’t get this. Why should we encourage more and more people to be crammed into existing developed areas? Seems like planned suburban communities would allow for a more sustainable world going forwardGreen Habit wrote:4/5 wrote:Green Habit wrote: The more housing of any kind that any major cityin the Westwith soaring housing costs can get, the better.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Tue February 05, 2019 7:42 pm
Yeah, that's along the lines of what I'm prepared to argue. A good example of this was the Showbox brouhaha that occurred this summer. It was popularly pitted as a music venue versus a 44 story residential skyscraper, but the ultimate problem is that there's only a very small sliver of land in the Seattle metro area where either can be legally constructed--hence they had no choice but to "fight" against each other. The reason I want BI to explain "planned suburban communities" further, because if that means "allow property owners in the suburbs to build something other than only single family homes", then I can find plenty of room to agree.4/5 wrote:I mean that's one way to frame it. I'd ask why should we prevent desperately wanted housing from being built instead of letting the market solve this government (read: homeowner NIMBY) created housing shortage.
Re: Microsoft commits $500M to Seattle area homelessness cau
Posted: Wed February 06, 2019 11:41 am
This. I actually had the words 'something other than 4k sq ft homes' in the post originally, but removed it. Creating incentives to build moderately dense residential areas (while mandating school and public transport expansions to accommodate the population increase) seems like a better way to get more people closer to economic centers than to make cities denser and taller with the added benefit of the decades of urban planning and environmental knowledge we have now. The real key is making it easier, faster, and safer for people to get to their jobs so that commute time is not economic waste that is driven by a lack of affordable housing.Green Habit wrote:Yeah, that's along the lines of what I'm prepared to argue. A good example of this was the Showbox brouhaha that occurred this summer. It was popularly pitted as a music venue versus a 44 story residential skyscraper, but the ultimate problem is that there's only a very small sliver of land in the Seattle metro area where either can be legally constructed--hence they had no choice but to "fight" against each other. The reason I want BI to explain "planned suburban communities" further, because if that means "allow property owners in the suburbs to build something other than only single family homes", then I can find plenty of room to agree.4/5 wrote:I mean that's one way to frame it. I'd ask why should we prevent desperately wanted housing from being built instead of letting the market solve this government (read: homeowner NIMBY) created housing shortage.