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Paul Vallas, a past mayoral candidate, offered his reaction on X: “Mayor Johnson celebrating spending $47 million in taxpayers dollars to secure a meager 58 affordable housing units. That’s the equivalent to spending $810,344 per unit. The city has approved five such deals spending $324 million in subsidies in return for just 505 units. This includes $150 million going to downtown developers converting office buildings to housing, committing to just 300 affordable units. An outrageous misuse of tax dollars.”
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It really is stunning. $47M for 58 Housing Units. Not even homes. $810K each unit. What the hell is this PinHead doing? Pathetic waste of money.
It costs a lot of money to turn Michigan Avenue into Robert Taylor Way.