Sounds like a better plan would be ESL classes.

That and realizing that instead of fighting the light rail created upscaling of the area would be better spent creating mixed income housing near future light rail stations like the one at N 65th.

How does someone who is on a board for low income housing find the following statement acceptable:

" most of who do not speak English or have employment skills. Their primary source of generating income is through community day care businesses or growing vegetables in their yards and selling them. "

So the issue he has is these people will lose easy access to selling yard food and daycare customers in the same non English community, who presumably pay for daycare with additional government funds.

So this man, and the board want a permanent refugee camp, funded by tax dollars, so the residents can live in prime real estate, and presumably do not have to do anything that normal residents and citizens need to do, get jobs, pay for housing, etc. in order to be productive members of the community?

How does creating a indentured population on tax dollars help anyone? This screed reeks of entitlement.

@1, maybe YOU need ESL. Grammatically you have achieved a new low, but in the matter of understanding the discussion, your meter is still pinned on zero where it has always been. It's not that you're wrong, so much as it is that your comments just don't make a lick of sense.

Sadly, Cabdi has a good argument. This project is heavily focused on providing subsidized housing for people who earn more than $60,000 a year, which is frankly insane. It's also racially exclusive, because the Adjusted Median Income for all residents is in the uppermost tier for black and Latino residents. Honestly, genuinely poor people are better off taking their chances in the unsubsidized marketplace out of town than in trying to hit the lottery in SHA.

@2, you're an idiot, and you have no freaking idea what poor or immigrant communities do or want or need.

@3 @4 do you even read the article you reply to?

See that last sentence ... what does he "say"?

Next thing you'll propose is that we limit building heights to eight stories "because it's always been that way".

FYI, there is low income housing on my block and also two blocks from me. In houses. Most people don't know it's there, cause they look similar to the other nearby housing.

@4 fnarf, I always enjoy your nuanced ad hominem additions to discourse.

I want the poor and immigrants to succeed in this country in the same way we all do, but demanding a perpetual state funded habitrail for insular communities is a pretty bad way to do it.

Historically "projects" are always a terrible idea. how would this one be different? The attitudes here are even worse.

But every current resident can stay, and they're building the new housing in phases, according to the FAQ on the Seattle Housing Authority site. This myth that all the poor people are getting kicked out to gentrify this space is just ridiculous.

Furthermore, leaving the board in protest (and not staying on as an advocate for this community) will probably just make things worse.

http://www.seattlehousing.org/redevelopm…

So these are falsehoods, @8?

@9, SHA has stated falsehoods for the last 10 years at least, and the fact that you apparently believe that "every resident can stay" when the place is going to be bulldozed is an example of the utility of those falsehoods.

@2,

So clearly the solution is to make them homeless.

Hey, where were you guys when I was forced to relocate to South Seattle because I couldn't afford a house up north? I understand that tax-funded Somali immigrants' rights to live in neighborhoods of their desiring far exceeds mine, but I'm frankly still a little cheesed about the whole thing!

i can't decide who's a bigger dumbshit, Will in Seattle, or SROTU. there ARE ESL classes available for yesler terrace residents. LOTS of them. and what makes you think somalis don't speak english? all the ones i know do. you, on the other hand, speak pure horseshit.