Posted on 07/28/2014 4:47:36 PM PDT by drewh
The high-rise at 500 N. Lake Shore Drive is the second-most expensive in the city, with rents for a one-bedroom apartment approaching $3,000 a month, well beyond the reach of most Chicago residents.
But that's not too much for the Chicago Housing Authority, which has used federal tax dollars to pick up most of the tab for four lucky residents in the year-old building, with its sweeping views of Lake Michigan, a concierge and a dog-grooming center.
The tenants moved in over the past two years as part of a push by the CHA to expand its housing voucher program so that more low-income residents can leave the city's roughest neighborhoods and start a new life in places with low poverty and crime and close to good schools and jobs. Some building owners are happy for the business.
Justin Elliott, principal at Chicago-based Marc Realty Residential, has few complaints after the CHA approved supervouchers for 36 leases this year and last in a 96-unit building Marc owned at 2300 S. Michigan Ave. Marc recently sold the building, which had the most supervouchers by far among all properties, according to the CHA.
“All in all, we viewed this as a very positive experience,” Mr. Elliott says.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagobusiness.com ...
Share the ghetto,that’s their motto.
Elections have consequences.
I was going to post a picture of George and Weezie Jefferson...you know, ‘movin’ on up’.
But then I remembered, in that show George Jefferson paid his own way into that deluxe apartment in the sky. He didn’t use taxpayer dollars to fund his fancy living space.
Block busting
I’m guessing that it is the uppity-high-class, hoity toities that live in the gold coast area that are to blame that now the smelly riff-raff are their next door neighbors in the hood.
They're the ones with the Michelle Obama 2016 banners on the outside balcony.
Artist: The Comrads
Album: The Comrads
Song: Homeboyz
Typed by: Lilmidget1@aol.com
Gangsta: Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha,
K-Mac: Comrads
Gangsta: nine-seven
Chorus: (Comrads) You can take the boy out the hood,
But you cant take the hood out the homeboy
You can take the boy out the hood,
But you cant take the hood out the homeboy
1980 when I been throwin it up
I put that on the hood I never been blowin it up
Now I shoot craps where I shot marbles
I hit the corner in a Benz where I roll a Monte Carlo
Me and my same crew from BMX’s to Rolex’s and Lexus’s
(Pop Pop) who wanna flex with this
We tight ? bring the right clip
Got sent to the pen for strappin chickens on a white chick
36 months of humps and drinkin 40’s
Tryna get swole and come home with Motorolla
I do what I told ya
Before I live like a trick I’d rather die like a souldier
Never snitched, never will
Never ran with a cat that ever squealed,
If he did then we would spill
Cuz we fold together, we share tone and we roll together,
And we down for whatever
Chorus: (Comrads) You can take the boy out the hood,
But you cant take the hood out the homeboy
You can take the boy out the hood,
But you cant take the hood out the homeboy
Gangsta:
Bellin, with nothin but fellons
when it’s going down neeya, it ain’t no tellin
Big money, dreams, is down with the Cavi scene since a teen
You know what I mean?
European autos, black folks to win the lotto
Fully autos, gettin paid is my motto
Nine grad, to get my thangs I neva had
It ain’t much, fool mess around and get touched
Life a sin, I’m gettin phonies from the pen
My fanmail is from the county jail
Girls can talk slang, hoochie mamas is the whole thang
A ghetto star, from the Caviar
Before my video, I ran my city lok
Big diamonds shining, waiting for the time and light to grind
No more hard timing,
and I’m out taking mine, neeya!
Chorus: (Comrads) You can take the boy out the hood,
But you cant take the hood out the homeboy
You can take the boy out the hood,
But you cant take the hood out the homeboy
K-Mac:
Ha ha, before you stands a man of prestige
Two-thousand dollar suits to bend these slacks fees
Only machine’ll burn amounts of cheese
Won’t stop ‘till I buy a house next to Ice Ceez
Give my right hand to God, its on
That’s why I’m out of town with these koochie playas workin so hard
Can’t sleep skip child ‘till I paid in full
Hit the house sex his spouse and go bang the hood
Gangsta:
Fool you can take the boy out the hood
But you can’t take the hood out the homeboy,
So it’s on boy
Rough riders swervin impalas
Linen suits and boots, when I hollas at the white collars
Bangin executives
Now just imagin how much fear and respect we get
I gives a damn if I was living in the hills
I’d be scoping out my neighbor tryna take whats his and um
Chorus: (Comrads) You can take the boy out the hood,
But you cant take the hood out the homeboy
You can take the boy out the hood,
But you cant take the hood out the homeboy
Gangsta:
Ha ha, yeah, parlayin on top of the hills, a, in chucks
Mind ya strilla, hits the curb
And lets see who’s got the most smiles,
westsiyeed!
Our tax money at work. Oops, work is a four letter word in Obama’s Transformed Amerika. It’s still our tax money, though.... Just that nobody’s working for it anymore.
So... I would guess that the ‘writers’ of this ‘lyrical masterpiece’ do not have access to any kind of spell checker.
Did you bother to check with your existing tenants before making your "very positive experience?"
Seems to me this would be a legal argument to cancel any long term lease. There is never an expectation in similar buildings of hosting EBT mommas and drug dealers...
Just make sure any such sign goes up first on the White House fence.
Someone is looking to quickly lower the value of this property in order to snap it up at a bargain price. Bet on it.
No, this will not end well. If I were living there it would be time to leave
before devaluation starts.
Yea, Jefferson earned his American dream. A concept lost to those Ghetto folk.
One of His Arrogance’s or the Chicago Princess’s friends trying to force a short sale of the building?
I am thrilled beyond words at the thought of all those snobby, rich, high-rise Obama-bot supporters of the Democrats, having to share their little above-it-all kingdom with the peons....imagine the snit some of them must be having right now!
I love it!
Welfare Gone Wild
Just livin’ large like their role models in the White House. Haters gonna hate!
all they need is free gubmint ganja and they’ll be all set..
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