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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people who are largely responsible for people having to go into homeless shelters in the first place reside in wards 7 and 8.  Indolence, lack of parenting, unemployed and unemployable, poor decision making. Haven't wards 7 and 8 already imposed enough costs on the rest of the city? How is rewarding failure with a [b]nice apartment[/b] in ward 3 fair?  Fair would be having the people that created the problem "live" with the consequences. [/quote]

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In earlier threads it was posited that these are not nice apartments.  These are essentially dorm rooms, which is how they were getting around the zoning laws on the the Ward 3 shelter first proposed (although the developer was to be promised an upzoning to multi-family when the 20 or 30 year lease ran out).

It was said these rooms would have no kitchen facilities, which would be communal, and hallway bathrooms with one bathtub per 40 people in a shelter supposedly full of mothers and their young children.

Is this still the plan?  If so, I don't know how you defeat it on zoning grounds if the shelters are able to take advantage of the zoning exception for dorm rooms and boarding houses.

Remaining very confused about this plan.

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These sound kind of horrible. And very expensive for kind of horrible. [/quote]

Yep, those logistics still haven't been addressed.  Not only was it dorm style units with communal kitchens and baths but at the original price tag and 30 year lease terms that Bowser threw at us, one could have bought every single homeless family a $650,000 townhouse.  I'm not kidding.  Literally THAT expensive.[/quote]

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