CincyGuy45202

This is very often the case. It's pathetic

I think it would be wise for everyone to email Brown & any other senator they like regarding the Cincinnati anti-streetcar amendment to make sure it doesn't make it into theconferenced bill.

Low income. Property owner is Race Street Tenant, formerly known as ReStoc, founded by Buddy Gray.

^ where is your original posts with the links you mention?

Wow!!!

Always good to know great things are going on over on the westside. Keep up the good work.

Fun Fact- Originally, 3CDC & the Port Authority were to develop the Banks, then when the County pulled a fast one and declared Corporex the developer 3CDC & the Port lost most of their input and that has since faded to almost nothing. A friend at 3CDC has said the Banks is the only project where they put money in and never got anything back. I've also been told that the Apartments at the 5th & Race site (on the 6th street side of the block) will be designed in a way to blow away the Banks and set a new standard for development in Downtown. Back to the park- Walked around it yesterday, looks great!! July 6 is getting here fast!! Any word on whether there will be any activity organized by the Homeless Coalition right when the park opens?

8th & State, you may have presented the worst idea ever. I'm gonna buy property in Texas. Should I now be able to vote for governor of Texas? Because I own an apartment complex in Indianapolis do I get to vote for both their council & Cincinnati's? What about the Abu Dhabi Investment Council who owns the Chrysler building? Should they get to vote for Mayor of New York? No one gets to vote everywhere they own property. That would be a horrible idea.

Pretty crazy how much great stuff LA is doing in the last 10 years while Cincy debates one lousy streetcar.

It's interesting to me that most every other category of crime has since fallen to pre-riot levels, except for murders. There's got to be a connection somewhere between the police "backing off" a bit after the riots, since returning to stricter enforcement, and criminals still thinking they can get away with murder, but I just can't quite put my finger on it. I've been told by friends in law enforcement that Cincinnati had virtually no gang activity prior to the riots. Then during/after the riots national gangs and other local gangs started popping up to take advantage of the slow down and of the chaos in the black community that happened after the riots. Cincinnati's drug crime was also fairly low but spiked after the riots. Since this has been discussed in other Cincinnati/OTR threads, I'll share that for the last 10 years between 75-90% of the homicides each year are of african americans with nearly every single arrest/conviction in these cases being of african americans as well.

^ totally agree. Unfortunately, there's no rent to be gained in lobby's or common areas for apartment dwellers :) so some developers are less interested knowing that they can still rent these units without the extra amenities. 3CDC sort of did that a little bit with Parvis, there are two storefronts that are actually lobby-type spaces, but they didn't use it as an opportunity to do a rec room or gym space.

Awesome. Looks like some good movement overall for the state of Ohio, especially in the three C's. I still don't totally get the way the government calculates non-farm jobs and why Cleveland has such a big gap (is there a lot of agriculture up there compared to the rest of the state??), but still very good movement and data. Thanks!

Police may not want to use their scarce resources for something that seems like babysitting (enforcing curfew) but it actually goes a long way to preventing crime.

You're right that you can't live alone at minimum wage. But when I was broke I lived in a crappy apartment with three guys and didn't ask the government to pay for the difference. The three of us I KY ended up paying about $250 a month in that arrangement. it was annoying so I was driven to get a better job so I could have my own place one day. Or look at the generalization that many immigrant families put 10-12 people in one house when they first arrive until enough of the family can make find odd jobs to move up in the world. Why does everyone need their own one bedroom for perpetuity?? And I get that you can't raise kids at minimum wage. But you know what- I don't have any kids right now because I can't afford them. Whatever happened to decisions like that? Or share a place with friends or family if you have kids you can't afford. The vast majority of homeless people are homeless due to drug or alcohol addiction or suffer from mental illness, not because there wasn't enough low income housing. And OTR housing units are about 70% subsidized, 30% market rate. It should exist in OTR and we shouldn't be emptying buildings, but I also don't think we should be adding anymore. It's an insatiable goal, to put every individual poor person in a one bedroom apartment. Ridiculous.

The downtown plasma care location closed 2/28/2011. I don't understand your big problem comment.

^ i believe Jskinner is referring to what I just said- Many of these units (which were built VERY nice under the impression if you give someone a nice subsidized unit maybe they'll take more care of it) are now quickly worn down because many tenants have little responsibility towards maintaining them and rarely are punished by landlords. Their rent is determined by their income, if they make less, they pay less- so it's not like there is a drive to succeed as a requirement for residency. Programs that include renter equity (Cornerstone, etc.) and that have strict and strong management and associated programs often work better- but at the same time, you can't give someone something for way less than it's value and expect them to treat it for anything more than what they paid for it. That applies to ALL people. You give a 16 year old kid a new mercedes and he's less likely to take care of it than if he works after school every day to buy himself a used honda. It's part of the human condition (obviously there are always exceptions and not everyone is the same). But the person who paid $180 a month for a $750 a month place is likely to mentally value that place at $180, not the fully subsidized value because they didn't pay it, they don't see it, and they probably aren't even aware that that's the full value. they pay what they're required to and that is the cost they realize. Spending millions of tax dollars on more, nicer, subsidized housing also doesn't help get someone OUT of subsidized housing. The goal, from birth, should be that any government subsidy helps ween you OFF of government subsidies by pushing you towards independence. They shouldn't continue every program indefinitely. I remember when they were moving tenants from the Metropole to build the 21C, the news paper quoted one 60 year old lady who had lived in subsidized housing since she was a child, including 25 years at the metropole. That's a bunch of crap! Everyone struggles and needs a safety net sometimes while they get back on their feet, but that net shouldn't double as a hammock. Back to OTR... I heard Mercer is breaking ground next week.

It's basically a certainty he will run. I've been hearing those rumors for a while now as well. He's getting an EARLY start and the Enquirer seems to be loving all the hullabaloo around it.

The articles state things like "two towers" and the city planning commission had two different towers, one with residential above parking at 6th & race and office over retail at 5th, not all built as one tower.

They will probably have to b completely rehabbed AGAIN 10 years from now. This same friend told me several of the places on vine, 13th & republic that were completely rehabbed in 2007 already have major damage and look like hell. Walls smashed, counters and carpets destroyed. They're considering having to rehab them again in the next 5 years. Such a waste of money. When you have almost no responsibility you don take care of anything (think wild college frat guys, except there you're force to grow up after 4-5 years).

Yay! More section 8 in OTR! *sarcasm* I've been told by a friend at Model the subsidized rents (what people actually pay) will be closer to $250-450 per unit with the government covering the remainder.

^ Mayor Mallory is not the banks developer. Email Mark Falon of Anderson real estate (or something like that). He is the one who has signed all of these restaurants on behalf of Carter Dawson. his name is plastered on every blank storefront downthere and was mentioned for bringing in both Crave & Yard house

I've been told that half the site will have about 8 stories on it (across from Saks) And the other half the site has the 20 story tower (Across from Walgreens). And that the apartments will be designed as a "slap in the face" to The Banks crappy architecture and mediocre quality. which is awesome haha. I trust this source.

It literally is the Banks. CR Architecture did this, the Banks, U Square, Adams Landing, etc.

Could someone move all this to the new, Qualls v Cranley thread?

It's all section 8 housing, so unless you make less than $25,000, you can't live there. Is that reverse discrimination??. That is income cap for a 1 bedroom for that project and the resident pays 30% of their income, the rest is subsidized.