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Biden Throws $45 Billion In Federal Funds To Convert Offices Into Homes
Mish Talk ^ | 10/30/2023 | Mike Shedlock

Posted on 10/30/2023 9:39:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

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1 posted on 10/30/2023 9:39:28 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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Soviet style flats at 450k incoming!


2 posted on 10/30/2023 9:43:02 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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"who wants to live there?”

Simple...make them rent-free for ten years and you have...
1. Bums
2. Homeless
3. Druggies
4. Illegal invaders

Especially if maid service, fresh linens, daily new fresh cut flowers, laundry service, drug and booze delivery, and three squares a day are included at no cost.

3 posted on 10/30/2023 9:44:40 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: SeekAndFind

Reconstruction contracts likely to be awarded to the highest bidder, like usual.


4 posted on 10/30/2023 9:49:22 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

Bus illegals to Rehobeth.


5 posted on 10/30/2023 9:53:16 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: KC_Conspirator

hahahaha

Yup.

Government solutions.


6 posted on 10/30/2023 10:02:21 PM PDT by Red6
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To: SeekAndFind

It’s really easy to spend other people’s money when you don’t have to get the approval of the Legislature.


7 posted on 10/30/2023 10:02:46 PM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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Since the offices are empty due to business failures, where are the inmates going to WORK? Oh, right. Their only job will be to vote Democrat. Five or six times.

Sounds like a cut-rate Cabrini Green to me.

Much better to convert that $45B to ammo and ship it to Ukraine.


8 posted on 10/30/2023 10:03:34 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: SeekAndFind

Cabrini Green New Deal


9 posted on 10/30/2023 10:11:37 PM PDT by digger48
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One has to think over this idea for a while. Empty office-buildings to be re-used?

So why are the buildings unused? Companies see no value to maintain them...since going to a smaller footprint and using home-office strategies.

Negatives here? You purchase and renovate for apartment-like homes...when there are no jobs in these locations (SF, LA, NYC, etc). I would imagine the renovation cost per unit to be greater than $250,000 per unit (you’ve already got high union cost in these urban locations).

In the end, you have some junkie in SF that you give a unit that is valued at $300,000....that $200,000 of renovation was poured into. Half-a-million spent on this and it’s turned into a ghetto within five to ten years.

Reason to go this path? Real estate owners are holding onto properties that are now worthless, and it’s a favor for the gov’t to buy their property at top-dollar.


10 posted on 10/30/2023 10:11:48 PM PDT by pepsionice
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...to help real-estate developers convert...

But it's the real estate developers (oligarchs?) who are lobbying for these "Soviet style flats."

If we had a free market, developers would convert these buildings at their own expense, then sell them at market rates.

Instead, as with Big Pharma, we have Big Real Estate demanding the government buy its product. Then these apartments will be distributed to the people for "free" or at subsidized rates.

11 posted on 10/30/2023 10:12:07 PM PDT by Angelino97
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“who wants to live in them”

When the government is paying the bills after illegally entering the nation, there will be plenty of illegal turd worlders.


12 posted on 10/30/2023 10:21:06 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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Plan to Sell Unused Federal Property Becomes ‘Arm-Wrestling Contest’

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In the federal government’s 2015 fiscal year, agencies reported more than 7,000 excess or underutilized properties, according to the Government Accountability Office.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/14/business/sale-surplus-federal-buildings.html

13 posted on 10/30/2023 10:38:09 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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The Projects II


14 posted on 10/30/2023 10:38:31 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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If the Feds gave up the 200,000,000 million square feet they do not need and converted that real estate to 1,000 square foot apartments, there would be an additional 200,000 domiciles available for living space or if the average were 650 square feet, there would be some 300,000 new homes available that would create additional tax revenue and add to GDP for services that support new neighborhoods


15 posted on 10/30/2023 10:44:40 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: lee martell

Preferences tor BIPOC and female (if that’s still a thing) owned companies, I presume.


16 posted on 10/30/2023 10:58:09 PM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold eday in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: SeekAndFind

$45 billion subsidy for Friends of Brandon.


17 posted on 10/30/2023 11:00:53 PM PDT by AZJeep
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Absolutely! Priorities, don’t you know.


18 posted on 10/30/2023 11:05:47 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: SeekAndFind

smells like a bailout


19 posted on 10/30/2023 11:07:33 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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I have started calling Biden, Moby. He is just a big white D@#k


20 posted on 10/30/2023 11:10:18 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( Starve the Beast and steal its food)
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