TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! PETITION TO PREVENT CROSSROADS SECTION 8 CIRCULATES WITH NEIGHBORHOOD SUPPORT!!!
Check the latest in the ongoing debate against Section 8 within walking distance to Kansas City's beloved Crossroads art galleries.
Remember that TKC put this controversy on blast FIRST!!!
Through AWESOME TKC TIPSTERS and with the help of Rebel Alliance we were able to provide a glimpse at blueprints of this project that will certainly be a Death Star for Downtown Neighborhood Real Estate.
However . . .
UPPER ECHELON TKC TIPSTERS HAVE INFORMED US OF A PETITION TO PUT A STOP TO THE SECTION 8 DEVELOPMENT THAT THREATENS TO CHANGE THE DYNAMIC OF THE CROSSROADS!!!
There's a lot of questions about this one ...
Don't po'folk have a right to enjoy Downtown convenience and culture as well?
Does this petition merely serve the interest of real estate speculators?
Crossroads Denizens love tagging their name onto all Downtown Real Estate but what's the motivation behind their effort to label this as a "Westside" project despite Crossroads listings on the very same block?!?! Like it or not, this project is in The Crossroads and the Section 8 impact should spill over to even some of the nicest luxury condos.
Finally . . .
An interesting cross-section of people are supporting this petition against Downtown Area Kansas City Section 8. But do they have a chance of winning against HUD cash and diversity efforts?!?!
DEVELOPING . . .
Sometimes Section 8 can be a good thing.
ReplyDeleteSection 8 destroys neighborhoods. Crossroads will see an increase in violence, prostitution and drug dealing. Not to mention a swift decline in property values.
ReplyDeleteBetter Title: Obamaville in the Crossroads.
ReplyDeleteYou'll learn someday TKC.
It will absolutely ruin the area. Watch and see.
ReplyDeleteGood for the Crossroads.
ReplyDeleteI don't know what all the fuss is about, most of the lofts in downtown KC already take Section 8!
ReplyDeleteIf this DOESN'T serve the interests of downtown real estate speculators it will be the first decision in a very long time that won't.
ReplyDeleteHow long will it take for KCMO residents to figure out whose benefit this town is actually run for?
The ramifications of Section 8 housing are obvious. What you are overlooking is that Section 8 housing is subsidized by Taxpayers and Taxpayers have the right to say WHERE they want to see there money spent.
ReplyDeleteTony, Toni, Toné.
ReplyDeleteThis was hung this on your door two weeks ago. Just like it was hung on everybody else's door that lives on the north end of the West Side. This is the West High development at 20th and West Pennway. When the heck did that become the Crossroads?
Also there is no section 8 housing in this development. It's mixed income. That means that there will be market rate apartments, and there will be low-income housing tax credit apartments, at a mix of about 40% market to 60% lihtc. The income limit for a household of 1 is at $28,880, which is 60% of area median income. That being said if somebody shows up with a Section 8 voucher, they cannot be turned away because that would be breaking fair housing laws.
Anyway, call the phone number, or send an email to Westside Housing Organization. Its listed on said flyer. Seriously Tony, it's called fact checking.
The western boundary for the Crossroads is I-35. This project is further west than that.
ReplyDeleteThe western boundary for the Crossroads is Broadway. Broadway has been the eastern boundary for the West Side for the past 40 years. We are as pleased to be a part of Kansas City’s growing arts community as we are of our historic heritage and identity, but we are not the Crossroads.
ReplyDeleteniggers fuck up EVERYTHING!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis development is two blocks from Broadway. Don't assume that the thugs will stop and turn around. They'll just walk right into the Crossroads area and help themsevles!
ReplyDeleteNew scoop T
ReplyDeleteTalk like a pirate for a free doughnut.
If you’re in the mood for a snack, you can get your hands on a complimentary doughnut Wednesday, but you’ll have to shiver your timbers to get the free treat.
How many developing story's have you pimped that never developed. That's what I want to know.
ReplyDeleteSee once we leave Tony's comment's dwindle down to about the volume of his readership which is about twelve people. And that might be overly optimistic.
ReplyDeleteAlright keep it clean and above the belt!
ReplyDeleteShould we or shouldn't we?
ReplyDeleteSure this dump needs all the help it can get.
ReplyDeleteThe guy doesn't pay and you want us to light this joint up? Fugget About It!
ReplyDeleteWe can offer Tony credit on batches of 50 comments.
ReplyDeleteWhat credit?
ReplyDeleteTony's Kansas City Saturday, November 1, 2003
ReplyDelete» Mr. Saturday Night Special
"You took my money, that's what you get!" is what a wacko shouted while he unloaded on his lawyer outside a Van Nuys, Calf. courthouse yesterday. The lawyer managed to save himself by ducking behind a tree. Television crews caught the whole thing on tape. The man was caught and thrown to the ground when it was discovered that it was not a divorce attorney he assaulted. LINK
» Oprah fans more likely to be stressed
Just as I had always suspected, people who watch the Oprah show are wound way to tight. Remedy, for the largely female audience of the show: get in the kitchen, get my dinner ready and put on those short shorts that I like. Burp. LINK
ROFLAMO
ReplyDeleteNo one wants section 8 in their neighborhood. Keep that shit in the downtown lofts.
ReplyDeleteSection 8 is good for ELDERLY, but not for single mothers who want to earn their livings raising unwanted, babies headed for prison when they're 18.
ReplyDeleteRemove the government benefits for single moms other than when they're kids are at school at breakfast and lunch.
NO Monthly cash stipends for poor mama-hood. Take the profit out of babymaking!
Burp
ReplyDeleteWould you like a snack cake to go with your fart-sniffing?
ReplyDeleteSure gimme two!
ReplyDeleteThose last two posts made no sense, and maybe they entertained YOU, but they were boring.
ReplyDeleteThe Kansas City Art Institute powers are behind the Crossroads Peregrine-Leedy-et al throne of politically correct appearances.
ReplyDeleteAt least we of Romney's discarded "47%" retain our souls.
I thought the Crossroads demographic was hipsters, artists, and others of a more liberal bent. To see them objecting to Section 8 is ironic and definately a case of NIMBY. The same people that want the expansion of all the social programs don't want it where they live and work....very telling.
ReplyDeleteNobody wants NIGGERS in their neighborhood.
ReplyDeleteDon't care what they do with it. But that eye sore needs to be torn down NOW or school board members sent to jail
ReplyDeleteVilla Del Sol and West Bluff didn't seem to make much difference in Crossroads getting off the ground and launched. Why would this?
ReplyDeleteAs always with KC, the discussion will not be public and the decision will not be based on best policy or practices. Instead, it will be all about who's getting paid. Late-comer Developers needing a boost from HUD money vs. Hipsters, the "Creative Class" , and those who bought in early. Should be a fun fight to watch.
ReplyDeleteActually, The Star needs to pick this story up to help us keep the crossroads and the westside safe.
ReplyDeleteTaxpayers should have a say in where section 8 should be used.
Can't have it both ways. Those whose mantra is diversity should be not be fighting against more diversity. Or I guess that diversity is only good when it does not affect you or your business.
ReplyDeleteMaybe you can now afford to move out of Rita's basement.
ReplyDeleteI wouldn't count on it. Tony can't afford the crossroads!
ReplyDeleteBwahahahahahaahaha!
Look how nice it is on Armour Blvd & Troost. Who wouldn't want Sec. 8 in their neighborhood?
ReplyDeleteNeighborhood diversity is just fine until your neighbor's kids and their friends start breaking in... get loud, fight, bully, and otherwise act like little punk assholes.
ReplyDeleteThen you want them and their babymaking single moms to go the hell away! Like back to the ghetto where no one cares how people behave.
since when is the cross roads continue into the west side. the school that they are redoing for section 8 is on summit in the heart of the west side. so look out there goes your property value and crime will increase in the west side
ReplyDeleteTHAT'S THE WEST SIDE NOT CROSSROADS YOU YUPPY IDIOT TONY!!!!!!!!!
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