TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! CELEBRATE KANSAS CITY SECTION 8 HOUSING COMING SOON TO THE CROSSROADS!!!
Don't look now but Downtown Kansas City development is gonna get more interesting and racially divisive.
To wit . . .
WE'RE ALREADY HEARING BACK FROM A WESTSIDE/CROSSROADS COMMUNITY MEETING AND THERE IS PANIC OVER THE POSSIBILITY OF LOW INCOME HOUSING WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF YOUR FAVORITE CROSSROADS ART GALLERY!!!
Once again the culprit is the legacy of the old and busted Kansas City Public Schools.
Here's a look at part of the building now in play . . .
Here's a fun and funny fact . . .
INTERLOPERS, REAL ESTATE SPECULATORS AND ALL KINDS OF WHITE PEOPLE ENJOYING WESTSIDE/CROSSROADS LIFE ARE IN FULL PANIC MODE REGARDING THE PROSPECT OF LOW-INCOME HOUSING RUINING THEIR REAL ESTATE FLIPPING SCHEMES!!!
What's even more worrisome . . .
Like it or not there are more than enough people ready to throw accusations of racism at anybody who might dare oppose public housing near the Crossroads.
Anyhoo . . .
There are other "multi-use" options under discussion that have absolutely no basis in reality. My favorite is a botanical garden . . . Sadly, The TKC idea of a home for newly retired strippers was shot down with little consideration.
Nevertheless . . .
GIVEN THAT KANSAS CITY LOCAL GOVERNMENT HAS RAMMED THROUGH THE DOWNTOWN TOY TRAIN WITH LITTLE THOUGHT OF REPERCUSSIONS . . . IT'LL BE FUN TO WATCH LOCAL POLITICOS SEE HUD AND DEVELOPERS IN ACTION!!!
Just in case some local d-bags doubt TKC journalism goodness . . .
Check a glimpse of preliminary plans to put low income housing near some of the best places in the crossroads and close to Downtown Toy Train access.
Whatever the case . . . Once again we'll all get a chance to call white real estate speculators racist and that's always a good time as "building density" not only serves as a great excuse for toy trains but also for more dangerous neighborhood risking real estate speculation. I guess we can call this "karma" for those of us who don't want to accept the horrible inside joke that is local biz & politics.
DEVELOPING . . .
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ReplyDeleteI don't know... Why does low income, section 8 homes always seem to imply racial diversity?
ReplyDeleteSection 8 RUINS neighborhoods. Look what happened to northern Hyde Park when all those apartments on Armour went Section 8. Homeowners finding people sleeping on their front porches, fights breaking out, shootings, prostitution, drug dealings. This is BAD news.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a liberal turned conservative ! Good for you. I agree totally, glad I moved way north of the river.
DeleteRight Tony like you expect us to believe this story? Contrary to what you believe some of us are smarter than you and not everyone is as stupid as you.
ReplyDeleteThe meeting was on Summit last night. Tony wasn't there but some of the options are better than a botanical garden.
ReplyDeleteThere is a mixed use plan that only incorporates a portion of low income housing into a residential project. That seems like the way to go.
Why the need for low income housing? It's like having a baby and injecting it with cancerous cells!
DeleteI guess people should be used to the government dropping a bomb on your investment at any time. Crack heads, teen moms, drug dealers, and 20-something loafers near your house and kids, who cares.
ReplyDeletegreat. right when we start cleaning up an area we are going to take a giant shit on it again. what the fuck is wrong with people. look at the history of what this housing does to neighborhoods. it guts them. it creates more crime, and makes people who actually pay taxes and spend money in the area leave for a safer place. we lose money. this isnt the time to lose more money.
ReplyDeleteDeVeLoPiNg!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ReplyDeleteROFLMAO trying to make a totally boring issue into a big drama good luck wit that.
Never fear the great American growth and prosperity machine is alive and well and can keep running forever with just a little tune up!
ReplyDeleteCrossroads needs more diversity anyway. This is a good plan.
ReplyDeleteThis story is overexagerated. That old school (located on summit st) is already in a hispanic neighborhood, & not the crossroads. Just a block or two west of this property is a huge section 8 housing communty (the west bluff) which has been there for decades.
ReplyDeleteWhile i am not a fan of section 8, if the mexican neighborhood west of the crossroads hasn't scared white suburbanites yet, i'm sure they will never even notice this property. This city has suffered from enough racial ignorance, so lets not add to it. & Everything "non-white" is not a bad thing.
You'll change your mind in a few years. I used to live downtown. Then they made the building I lived in Section 8. It was the worst thing that ever happened. It was nothing but break ins, vagrants and even 3 shootings right outside my front door. Prior to Section 8 it was like a valhalla. But I guess you hipsters want to have filth you can have it.
DeleteSo now the area restaurants are going to accept food stamps?
ReplyDeleteThe comical thing about this post is that the property in question is located in a neighborhood that has been a section 8, since the section 8 program came into existance.
ReplyDeleteMost of the crossroads action is east of broaday,, this property is further west on summit, which basically makes it a non-issue lol
oh, this is going to be filled by mexicans? sweet. they actually take care of their shit and make things nicer (albiet horrible paint color choices).
ReplyDeletebring on the mexicans! they actually work hard to.
Why do you automatically assume that Section 8/Low Income Housing will be populated by minorities, Tony? Who is REALLY the racist here?
ReplyDeleteWell, the numbers don't lie.
DeleteIt's within walking distance of the Crossroads. Also withhin running distance of Crossroads.
ReplyDeleteThis place anin't going to be Mexican- that's wishful thinking.
The much greater threat to the Crossroads is the grandiose dreams of the usual suspects of relocating the UMKC Arts Conservatory to the Crossroads. The downtown boosters love to FORCE more people downtown, witness the relocation of Federal workers from Bannister, and will love the increase in their property values by having the taxpayers pick up most of the tab for bright shiny new things in the Crossroads. But the tenants, renters, and property owners won't do so well when their rents and property taxes soar.
ReplyDeleteBut thanks for REALLY taking the risks and actually creating something. We and our development attorneys will take it from here!
I like the way that only white people are racist. So the hard working Hispanic people who have lived in the neighborhood their whole lives are welcoming section 8housing? Sure they are. Tony would welcome a next door babies mama with 7 kids who pillage the neighborhood? Sure he would. Fucking white people....
ReplyDeleteOh no, we hate section 8 too.
DeleteThere is a difference between Section 8 Housing and Low Income Public Housing. Section 8 housing is tenant based. That means a landlord agrees to allow a low income person to live in a unit of housing in return for a guaranteed rent payment from the local housing authority. Low Income Public Housing is project based. That means an entire development is reserved for persons of low income.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with low income/Section 8 housing per se. Problems arise when too much low income/Section 8 housing is concentrated in a small area.
Tony the classist. "We don't want no stinkin' low income folks in my mamma's neighborhood."
ReplyDelete@10:49 Good Post! Vibrant neighborhoods need a mix of people from all types of backgrounds.
ReplyDeleteLet it be
ReplyDeleteSounds like a hippie, do nothing, no backbone, babyboomer! Or some young ignorant dip shit.
DeleteWhen you get raped and robbed, let it be.
Doesn't your Mommy have any pull downtown anymore Tony? The minutemen have to have some connection to this.
ReplyDeletemannys sucks...
ReplyDeleteel patron is the best.
Great. The blackterial infection is spreading to the beaners. The result? More blacktinos. People too lazy to steal.
ReplyDeleteAvoid coontact. More white cells are necessary to purge the infection. Let's keep it contained within the barrio so we won't be sorry oh.
Whenever white people want to speculate on real estate the call the West side the crossroads. Whenever they want to make money from pimping low income housing it becomes the crossroads.
ReplyDeleteShame on you racists.
12:28, so they always call it the crossroads then?
ReplyDeleteNo, shame on YOU, dumbass
This racism is destroying KC.
ReplyDeleteThe term Section 8 just sounds nutty to me.
ReplyDeleteThe military says it means undesirable habits and character traits.
Sort of like a lot of the people who move in to Section 8 housing
Does this surprise you! Come on man, even the government knows the truth.
DeleteSounds like Tony doesn't want blacks in his neighborhood to me.
ReplyDeleteThere is section 8 right across the street, and subsidized apartments 4 blocks closer on 20th and washington. tony creating a story out of nothing again
ReplyDeleteThere is section 8 right across the street, and subsidized apartments 4 blocks closer on 20th and washington. tony creating a story out of nothing again
ReplyDeleteThere is section 8 right across the street, and subsidized apartments 4 blocks closer on 20th and washington. tony creating a story out of nothing again
ReplyDeleteTry saying that 3 times fast.
ReplyDeleteNo more section 8 in KC. It is ruining out economy.
ReplyDeleteIt's always funny to see liberals act incredulous when they find out they might have to live next to a poor person.
ReplyDeleteThey throw money at those problems; isn't that good enough?
It really makes you re-think entitlement programs.