Posted on 06/30/2009 4:24:45 PM PDT by Krankor
Low-income apartment dwellers and middle-class condo owners have shared Westhaven Park Tower since the building opened in 2006 -- an innovative setup that the city hoped would unite residents and exemplify Chicago's $1.6 billion overhaul of public housing.
Proximity, however, has not led to harmony.
The most recent skirmish inside the 113-unit midrise on Hermitage Avenue on the West Side concerned building security. Another flare-up centered on the proper use of the lobby: Public housing residents -- who make up a third of the building -- saw it as a place to hang out; condo owners did not.
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Bringing an abandoned couch and a 40 oz. Colt 45 doesn’t add to the property value.
Who, in their right mind would buy a condo in such a place?
Trust-funded "progressives" who were humming "Ebony & Ivory" as they signed the Purchase & Sale Agreement.
Lots of Liberals in Obamaland.
Hey, it you ain’t got no job, and no responsibilities, where else you gonna hang out?
Hang out in the lobby, and watch the people with the money go by... day after day...
sounds like a recipe for ... something
This whole “mixed housing” idea is the dumbest idea that the left has dreamed up in quite a while. It was being pushed back in the late 1990’s but people then were not biting. Apparently, a few were drawn in to the idea. I suspect that after a few robberies, a few conservatives will emerge.
Well, I lived in an apartment complex, about a year old when I moved in, that had a similar deal. A certain fraction of the units were dedicated to subsidized low income tenants. I never knew, but suspected in a couple of cases, which was which. That was about 6 years ago, I finally broke down and bought a garden home...only to be transferred 9 months later. :).
I still drive by the place when I'm in town, and it doesn't appear to have become blighted or anything like that. It is a gated and fenced complex, although the main gate is open during daylight hours, and I think that helps.
It was an interesting complex, with two different types of buildings. One type had two story units in the middle, and single story units on the ends. The other, the type I was in, had 4 two bedroom units in each building, two up and two down.
Oh gee, what could possibly go wrong?? Central planning at it’s best.
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