[XR7]

The 39 aid calls to the building since it opened in mid-December far exceed what backers of the controversial project anticipated...The number of calls for emergency aid "has been a little bit of an eye-opener," said Bill Hobson, executive director of Downtown Emergency Service Center

LOL
What did you expect, you dufus?
Here is a monument to a complete lack of common sense: Another socialist-engineering government project paid with taxpayer dollars.
Build a multi-million dollar apartment complex for drunks to live in and tell 'em it's okay to drink. And let the taxpayers pay for it. ROFLMAO! And they call that "compassion."

[Tulsa Ramjet]

"Build a multi-million dollar apartment complex for drunks to live in and tell 'em it's okay to drink."

We actually have this already. Its called the DNC convention.

[Puppage]

a little bit of an eye-opener

As opposed to:

[P-40]

With virtually no chance to achieve sobriety

Be some interesting candidates for Ondansetron.

http://www.uthscsa.edu/opa/issues/new34-48/johnson.html

[sionnsar]

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[XR7]

LIVING LARGE - The Downtown Emergency Service Center's $11.2 million, 75-unit
apartment building for chronic street alcoholics, at the upscale 1811 Eastlake Avenue
address, in Seattle.

[jonascord]

"Of the 39 aid calls placed over the past 12 weeks, however, seven have saved a resident's life, Hobson said."

I'm going to ask what at first glance seems to be a cold question: Why are they bothering to save these people? Here is an city and state that has been hot for years to employ euthanasia on the terminally ill, and now they have established a concentration laager for people who have overwhelmingly demonstrated that they want to die, as painlessly as possible. I say get a 55 gallon drum of Everclear, put it in the lobby, and wait 24 hours. These people will either choose to quit, (yeah, right...), or drink until their heartbeat is suppressed down to once a week. It's a win-win deal.

[dynachrome]

"they are given an opportunity to rent a nice studio "

Big effing lie. WHO pays the rent?

[Old Professer]

"Of the 39 aid calls placed over the past 12 weeks, however, seven have saved a resident's life, Hobson said."

The next time this guy goes down they should let him lie.

[bird4four4]

I don't think anyone anticipated the state of their basic health and the extent of their illnesses

I bet someone did, you just didn't want to listen or believe them when they told you.