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2014-06-25 Economy

Chicago to ask for temporary halt of single-room occupancy hotel conversions

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Posted by Fred 2014-06-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Chicago faces the horror of a FlopHouse Shortage?

Posted by Shipman 2014-06-25 05:15|| 2014-06-25 05:15|| Front Page Top

#2 If they need rats or bedbugs, New York is having a sale.

Posted by SteveS 2014-06-25 05:28|| 2014-06-25 05:28|| Front Page Top

#3 Shortage of flophouses isn't the issue.
In Chicago, the phrase "It's gonna cost ya" has a whole different dimension.

Posted by ed in texas 2014-06-25 07:24|| 2014-06-25 07:24|| Front Page Top

#4 This unpleasantness could all be easily remedied if Section 8 vouchers were simply amended to permit individual, nightly stays. Sort of a punch card system.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-06-25 07:32|| 2014-06-25 07:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Ah, yes Kelo, seize property without due process or compensation, right Justice Kennedy?

People who buy these overprices one bedroom 'condos' have money and independence, while those doing flophouse living are tied (indentured)to the government's tit. Why free men may actually vote the other guy. They got to protect their phoney baloney jobs.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-06-25 08:14|| 2014-06-25 08:14|| Front Page Top

#6 So you want to mess with the market and have non profit housing and further drive out producing renters? Fine have your drug infested sh*thole slums.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2014-06-25 18:58|| 2014-06-25 18:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Fine have your drug infested sh*thole slums.

Thing is, the Feral Govt will give you money for a drug infested sh*thole slum, but not for an upscale neighborhood. Beaks must be wet!

Posted by SteveS 2014-06-25 22:51|| 2014-06-25 22:51|| Front Page Top

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