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To keep their artists, cities explore affordable housing
The Watertown Daily Times ^ | February 26, 2017 | Stateline.org

Posted on 02/26/2017 4:28:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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1 posted on 02/26/2017 4:28:20 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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Why....are these folks getting a break?


2 posted on 02/26/2017 4:31:51 PM PST by ptsal
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A rather pleasant ruse to force taxpayers to pay for a permanent Democrat voting majority.

Even better, they get federal money to exclude people.

Thought that was called segregation and discrimination in housing.

They run the scam here in California: The Tannery in Santa Cruz is just a flophouse for the supporters of the local Rat machine. The “artists” can qualify with crayon pictures. One of the “artists” kidz raped and murdered one of the girls in the complex, dumped her in a dumpster. He goes on trial this week.

Great use of tax dollars, huh?


3 posted on 02/26/2017 4:32:07 PM PST by Regulator
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Was it in Oakland, CA, recently, that an artists’ hive worked out so well?


4 posted on 02/26/2017 4:32:21 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

affordable housing = somebody else pays


5 posted on 02/26/2017 4:32:46 PM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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To: Regulator

I’m an artist too. I can spell my name in the snow. Cursive no less. Big letters.


6 posted on 02/26/2017 4:33:14 PM PST by Eddie01
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I wish I could do art, but I have been cursed with actual useful skills that contribute in their small way to the advancement of human knowledge. But feel free to tax the f$&&)( out of my labor to pay people to create something that nobody in the real world just do not value enough to pay for.


7 posted on 02/26/2017 4:34:29 PM PST by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%fe)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Oakland had a wonderful idea
Look the other way while a warehouse
was re-purposed for an artist's commune

Didn't turn out so well
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Oakland_warehouse_fire

8 posted on 02/26/2017 4:34:43 PM PST by HangnJudge
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Yes, it’s very important that America’s cities keep their artists! Because that’s the main problem facing those cities. They don’t have enough artists!


9 posted on 02/26/2017 4:38:02 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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State and local governments provide lots of incentives to businesses to locate in their jurisdiction with they hope that their presence will lead to higher employment and higher tax revenues.

Those incentives are always a bad idea.

Incentives are always a bad idea if they are for an Apple campus, a Ford auto factory or a community for artists.


10 posted on 02/26/2017 4:41:49 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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> Those incentives are always a bad idea. <

Right you are. Studies have shown that these incentives don’t bring any new money in. All they do is shuffle around the money that is already there.

But don’t bother telling that to the Central Planners. They know everything.


11 posted on 02/26/2017 4:49:19 PM PST by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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12 posted on 02/26/2017 4:51:16 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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[. . . Bell Artspace Campus, an ambitious, $37 million space for the city’s musicians and artists to live and work in.]

I can't visualize Jack Kerouac or Jackson Pollock living and working in the Bell Artspace Campus. But if a person can qualify by calling themselves an artist the place will fill up fast.

13 posted on 02/26/2017 4:51:37 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee (A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
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I’m an artist also. I work in various mediums such as ruby, java, CSS, JSON, etc. Where’s my subsidy.


14 posted on 02/26/2017 4:57:28 PM PST by posterchild (Treade a worme on the tayle, and it must turne agayne.)
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To: Eddie01

In yellow ink?


15 posted on 02/26/2017 5:26:58 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (Lock her up!)
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To: ptsal

Why....are these folks getting a break?

Because the world can’t have enough smear-chocolate-on-their-bodies Lesbos.


16 posted on 02/26/2017 5:39:47 PM PST by arrogantsob (Check out "CHAOS AND MAYHEM" at Amazon.com.)
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You’re in!

Actually, since they accepted federal tax dollars to build the place, they have to accept any “qualified” applicant - i.e. Section 8 qualified.

They didn’t talk about that. But all the deadbeats heard about it. They actually would administer the art test to them, but it didn’t matter. They had to be let in.

So 30% of their “art colony” is actually just the usual parasite class: being subsidized to live on the beach.


17 posted on 02/26/2017 5:40:25 PM PST by Regulator
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To: Regulator
You should at least have to draw Tippy...


18 posted on 02/26/2017 6:17:32 PM PST by Eddie01
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I’m an artist too. I can spell my name in the snow. Cursive no less. Big letters.

In my youth, I could print my name in the snow. My pelvic muscle was so strong, it could open jars of pickles. I had the start and stop capabilities like a Cheetah. Now I can only write my initials, in cursive. And I dribble more than the NBA.
19 posted on 02/26/2017 6:20:32 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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Uh...no. In order to get section 8 around here, the place is inspected (by the local government, not the feds). I’ve got a rental house - it could probably pass although I haven’t tried.

However prior to my looking at the forms it could not have passed (no keyed deadbolts, must have bathroom fan)...I think there were a few others as well.


20 posted on 02/26/2017 6:24:48 PM PST by scrabblehack
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