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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By choosing to put the housing in expensive areas, she is choosing to pay twice what she would be paying in less expensive neighborhoods, therefore helping less people. It doesn't make sense at all. [/quote]

It does make sense.  Access to better job opportunities, retail and schools found in more expensive areas is worth the extra cost.  Warehousing poor people in isolated neighborhoods has never worked and will never work.[/quote]

At $3300 a month plus the cost of renovation/construction, plus maintenance cost, et cetera, that's still grossly overinflated even for the neighborhoods that they want to locate those units in.  In many parts of the city you can rent 2 bedroom 1 bath apartments for $1000 less than what the city will be paying, for example the Lex just opened in Ward 6 a few blocks from the proposed shelter location and they have 2 bedroom 1 bath units for lease for $2400.  And that's with the landlords running it as a for-profit operation, full retail cost.  The city should be getting a deal for something akin to wholesale cost, a fractional percentage.

It is a boondoggle, pure and simple.  Council needs to put the brakes on this and investigate.[/quote]

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