Posted on 01/23/2015 7:21:44 AM PST by george76
Crap. Sorry if I cut anybody’s pay. :>}
Both boarding houses and SRO hotels were put out of business by various government laws and regulations. For example, boarding houses had to pass safety inspections, their kitchens had to meet commercial health standards, the owners had to rent to males and females, and on and on ...
When I was a little boy, the finest meal I ever had was from two old ladies cooking in their home (a house? I was very young) and serving men at a huge table, it was home style where you passed the large bowls and the platters to each other, and at least one of the stoves was in the same room as the table, the best cooks in the world, “grandmother cooking” of the forgotten past.
Back then my dad tried to explain that if you bought a place to live, look for one that could serve as a boarding house, for additional income.
On one of my trips to Seattle, we walked all around town, when got to one section of town, we ran into a circus of crazies.
Later when we were talking to friends, who lived there, we found that we had wandered into the rehab section of town.
Last trip to Seattle, we found many of those had moved to the new low income housing area near Pike Place.
Some of the old timers I know remember eating lunch at boarding houses near their place of employment. The boarders were fed breakfast and dinner, but the public could eat a home-cooked lunch there for a dollar or so.
But the MSM keep telling me the economy is booming! To be honest, though, homelessness is often the product of personal failure or incapacity - drug and alcohol addiction, mental illness, severe depression, family breakdown - that makes those individuals impervious to any social remedy other than forcible institutionalization, and that is taboo.
Called them Obamavilles, just like the Dem’s called homeless camps Hoovervilles back in the day.
Re: “homeless encampments”
One of the largest encampments is literally next door to the King County Courthouse.
It’s been there for years now and turned a once beautiful park with hundred year old trees into a muddy wasteland.
Panhandling, drinking, drug use, drug sales, and sleeping on the sidewalks are endemic in the surrounding neighborhood, even though there is a constant police presence in that area.
One of the largest free kitchens in Seattle is just a few blocks away beneath a network of I-5 overpasses.
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