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Friday, June 29, 2012

City Do One Good Deed This Week—Send a Quick Note in Support of Low Income Housing

Posted by Cienna Madrid on Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:59 PM

Seattle doesn't have enough low-income housing—that's a simple fact.

However, the city is currently considering a proposal to build an apartment complex for extremely low-income people at the current site of Lake City's Fire Station 39—the same crumbling structure that hosted an emergency winter shelter for homeless people last year. The city's Department of Finance and Administrative Services has recommended this project and the funding is there: Capital costs for a ground-floor community space would be covered by $950,000 set aside from the Sunny Jim’s fire insurance settlement, and further housing development costs would be covered by levy dollars.

Unfortunately, FAS is looking for feedback on the proposal and a number of area residents have written letters of opposition, which could ensure that it's killed before ever being seriously considered by the city council.

So here's what you need to do, all ye faithful friends of the poor and downtrodden: Send a quick note of support for the proposal by 5:00pm today to richard.gholaghong@seattle.gov.

Something along the lines of:

As a faithful friend of the poor and downtrodden, I fully support the city's preliminary plan to turn Lake City's decrepit Fire Station 39 into subsidized housing.

Hearts and Butterflies,
[Whatever the fuck your name is]

And you'll have done one very good deed for the week.

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Posted by Leens on June 29, 2012 at 1:10 PM

Lake City Way is the asshole for the north side's lower colon. Perfect place for bum housing. It's like squeezing out a turd to
protect the decent areas surrounding.

Posted by Lake Shitty Way on June 29, 2012 at 1:21 PM

Lake City Way is the asshole for the north side's lower colon. Perfect place for bum housing. It's like squeezing out a turd to
protect the decent areas surrounding.

Posted by Lake Shitty Way on June 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM

Diversify low income housing location and consider other neighborhoods that do not have low income housing: Wallingford, Ravenna, Laurelhurst, Maple Leaf, and Magnolia.

Posted by neo-realist on June 29, 2012 at 1:24 PM

@4 Thanks for the laugh. Nope, Cienna thinks Lake Shitty Way is perfect and for once I agree. Great campaign, as a northsider, I thank you for avoiding the nicer areas with this turd.

Posted by Great White North on June 29, 2012 at 1:32 PM

why build something new? there are so many vacant homes, surely the government could buy them up cheap and turn them around. They can have mine- I don't want it.

Posted by lemonrose on June 29, 2012 at 1:34 PM

What 4 said -- there are already a bunch of apartments in lake city that are "low income" and available. I say low-income in that they are much lower than many neighboring areas of Seattle. I don't feel like we need a low incoming house apartment when it's prices for rent would be near comparable as current apartments.

Although that damn fire station has trucks zooming outta there literally like 20 times a day. I use to live right across from it on 28th and it sucked. Needless to say, I just moved out but a week ago and am no longer a lake city resident, so do what you will.

Posted by lizlemon on June 29, 2012 at 1:41 PM

Thank you, Cienna, for being a supporter of what's needed for homeless people: both immediate shelter and long-term housing.

Posted by sarah70 on June 29, 2012 at 8:44 PM