[Yardstick]

LOL. Capitol Hill doesn’t do hipsters. We are a starched and buttoned down demographic

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My point is that the people living in the Victorian apartments and subdivided homes aren’t low income people. I asked if you’d be willing to have your area zoned for duplexes, by which I meant low income multi family housing. You replied that you already had such housing in the form of Victorian apartments and subdivided homes. But the people living in these are by your own admission not low income types.

Anyway, it’s been interesting hearing your ideas.

[sphinx]

Capitol Hill still has housing projects left over from the 1960’s. We have Section 8 housing. Within the last month or so, the city signed contracts to build a hundred or so units for people now living in shelters, many of whom have been in shelters for years — i.e. the hard core homeless types. This will be built on part of the the Stadium/Armory tract along the river on the eastern edge of the Hill. The point is, we have a sizable low income population. They’ve always been here. As a result, we’re not sympathetic with suburban jurisdictions that hide behind exclusionary zoning and refuse to shoulder any of the responsibility for finding better solutions.