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I think using the whole building for low income or homeless housing is a mistake. It's going to turn to shit. What they need to do is sprinkle low income families in amongst medium income residents.
This has the added benefit of providing some income to the program and increasing social mobility.
That’s worked well in Vienna and Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
There’s 1,300 unsheltered homeless people in Denver. This hotel has near 200 rooms. With space in each room for multiple residents, this can put a major dent into the amount of homeless on the street if it’s used exclusively for that purpose. Plus, other homeless shelters in the Denver/Boulder area are spread crazy thin as it is. It’ll take a massive effort to keep it from going downhill but I think it can be done.
I like what you’re proposing, but I think this idea is just addressing a different goal. Plus there are probably better places than a hotel to integrate homeless into low/medium income society.
It depends on what their goal is.if it's just to give people temporary shelter for 6 months or so it could be an effective halfway house style setup. If it's meant to be permanent housing, the it would be better to have a mix. If it's just about headlines, then throw the most problematic homeless there and let the place get destroyed in 3 months.
6 months won't work, it'll take another 6 months renovation afterwards.
We need better solutions than short term warehousing, I've seen tiny house and similar systems that seem to have worked some, the key is to keep things manageable but ensure the expectation that the user is responsible.
The moment you have hallways you go back to Cabrini green really quickly.
We've experienced this where I am, and I agree. Mixed demographic high density is necessary to prevent the stigmatisation that comes from living in designated ghettos.
It does look like they're thinking about these things to sone degree though, thankfully:
I am very happy that there are efforts to help the homeless though. I hope it is to help, and not just hide away.
I'm personally a fan of Singapore's rules which make 5% of all new development social housing.
It has been pretty successful in my county. The county bought up around seven hotels to house the homeless. Several hundred homeless are housed until they can find more permanent housing.
Too Few of those programs exist. However, I’ve heard they are very competitive and make people jump through lots of hoops.
There's also waiting lists a mile long in most cases.
😂 no walled off ghettos with final solutions per the GOP 🇺🇸😭