Seems like a sure fire way to force homelessness onto thousands of people in Springfield.

Gee, I dunno, maybe turn them into affordable housing?

That doesn't benefit rich people though? Any ideas that are a little bit more reasonable?

Bulldoze them and build new churches and car washes on the land

Fuck, I wish I could find a car wash...

Turn them into shelters for spiders and termites. They get cold and want to get warm too. Nobody ever thinks about the spiders.

Restore SGF and the Blue House Project are doing just that. (I realize your comment was tongue in cheek.)

Absolutely. Added regulation and costs will be passed onto the end users, people struggling to pay their bills already. Rents go up, fewer can afford them. These fools will cripple the same people they claim to be helping and few will take the time to realize it.

I was thinking more along the line of condemning tons of houses that are currently housing people. But yes also that.

I’m all for regulation and making sure things are safe, but we need a plan of what to do on the way of getting there. It’s missing steps.

That's what many of them are right now. This article is about how the city should deal with those affordable housing units which are dilapidated while occupied, or abandoned by the owners.

There is absolutely no reason for us not to build churches on top of car washes. You can have your sins and mud washed away for one monthly fee

https://i.imgur.com/DzSUOIM.jpg

The article is about the council beginning to discuss how to handle abandoned or seriously dilapidated properties. Surely you don't mean that this discussion itself will force homelessness onto thousands.

Is there a more particular policy or program which you are opposing?

The specific recommendations that are spoken of in the article are what I’m referring to

Report problems here: https://seeclickfix.com/web_portal/5rjpvuKBWWnJ6oNpTq3mXkqt/report/category

Oh of course. Tear them town and build luxury apartments 95% of the city can't afford

Might as well add a drive through liquor store for the greene county special

Nah that's right next door below the glory holes adult entertainment store.

use them as projects for college kids to do something with.

You mean like that giant abandoned college on Norton and Grant? You'd think the Christian thing to do would be house people but it sits there unused instead.

I have read very convincing studies that show turning derelict properties into housing for the homeless or very low income housing is not great.

These old houses often have a lot of issue that people who aren’t accustomed to maintaining a home or who have access to quite limited resources, just can’t address. These houses just continue to deteriorate into squalor but now with a person in them.

I think in many cases it is cheaper and overall better to knock down the run down house and build a couple of new cottagettes or mini homes on the lot to then use for these purposes.

Isn’t the article specifically talking about abandoned properties, not properties with current occupants?

Edit: nvm, I didn’t get to the rental housing section near the end. I see what you mean.

Not at all. It’s talking about nuisance properties, and even utilized statistics about the percentage of them that are rental properties.

Yeah I didn’t get that far before replying. My bad. Should have known better.

Looks like a great place for a 14th 7 Brew to me.

Get them up to code and use it for affordable housing, cold weather shelters and transitional housing for our TAY aged youth who are in foster care.

We could also use them for housing for our vets and seniors.

I wish there was a way we could crowd source money together and fix these houses up then pay everyone back the money and charge the person living there a reasonable rent price. Itd be a win win for everyone and itd make our city look better.

I want to kiss every bug but they are so small and my lips are so strong.

I’m pretty sure it was sold years ago. The people who bought it haven’t done much with it though.

Or better yet, build new banks and convenience stores/gas station combos. As if SGF doesn’t have enough of those. Or strip malls.