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Under Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s 2023 budget that passed last month, the city will direct $3 million in federal COVID-19 stimulus funds toward a tiny homes project that she said will be the “first of its kind.” The housing will be long term, with heating, plumbing and other required features under the Chicago building code.
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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I found a woman living in a porta john in Austin one morning. These certainly seem like a step up.
Are they going to pay taxes?
Government housing at its best.
The government employee who set this up is living in a mansion in Punta Gorda Florida.
Has the building code been repealed ?
How much time are you going to spend talking about them and when they are built how long before someone gets to move in? Housing now.
Embryonic refugee camps or trash ingredients? Who will get the demolition and removal contracts and when does the RFP come out?
Liberal/progressive “wokeness” created much, perhaps most, of the homelessness with which we’re confronted. A problem into which taxpayers pour billions of wasted dollars – things just never seem to get better. Except for the folks who make a living by dreaming up these bad solutions – they get lots of money to come up with silly ideas. Wokeness replaced “institutional” mental health residential and outpatient care with, what….. Overworked and under-respected police officers, jails and prisons. Social workers with a tote-bag full of flyers referring the homeless to institutions and agencies they don’t want to go to, or talk with.… Read more »
“Specific locations for the city pilot program have not been determined.”
Typical government project, spend $3 million in Fed funds on a program that is missing a key component.
Build them and they will be destroyed within a year maybe two.
Will our tiny mayor commit to live in a tiny home one week per month ?
The corner boys will love these. One for weed, one for crack, one for blows, one to stash cash, one to stash supply. This won’t end well.
Why are tiny homes better than SROs?
I too have wondered why SROs aren’t in vogue anymore. Seems to be a more green approach to addressing housing that building singular units. Is it security reasons?
Convert a few of these closed CPS schools to SRO’s. If anything, it’ll be fun watching NIMBYs emerge even in less desirable neighborhoods.
Articale gives ZERO information on how many ‘tiny homes’ are being built or maintained for how long for $3 mil? What is cost per “tiny home”? or does that matter? or does just fake-progressive feel good virtue signaling all that matters?—–meanwhile on my nw side 1,100 sf tiny home bungalow prop taxes up over $1,000!!!!
Just house them in under used nearly vacant school buildings. There I fixed it for no additional cost.
Lori, if you ever need managerial advice get in touch with Wirepoints and hopefully they’ll hook you up with Old Joe.
Silly rabbit, those empty schools will be modernized, gentrified, turned into “workforce housing” and handed out to loyal CTU/AFT apparatchiks.
That’s not a bad idea. Offer up one closed school as a CTU Commune. Let teachers move in and live in the space however they want. Like when the Lambda Lambda Lambda guys fix up the house in ROTN. They can even invite the homeless or migrants to live with them if they so choose.
The correct term is Illegal Aliens or Public Charges.
How much will the property taxes be? No matter the size of all our homes we can only occupy a tiny fraction of the square feet of the home at any given time. Our STUFF we accumulate over the years occupies the rest.