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- Residents fear Lawton proposal has too many houses for homeless
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  About 40 percent of the proposed units - a 55-unit building for seniors and 15 duplexes for 30 families - would be set aside for the formerly homeless. Six town homes would be allotted to Habitat for Humanity. The rest would be market-rate town homes and single-family houses starting at about $500,000.
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- Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  While the abundance of cranes on the Seattle skyline seems to indicate there remains some profitability in development, the Seattle City Council hesitated Tuesday to actually put some teeth behind infrastructure taxes on this period of growth: To some low-income-housing advocates, spending $1,115 a month to rent a studio apartment in Seattle does not sound affordable. Mayor Greg Nickels and the Seattle City Council say it is. The city defines an affordable place as costing no more than 30 percent of a household's income. Separately, the city now spends $40 million a year in voter-approved levy funds on low-income housing targeted at people who make below 50 percent of median income.
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- Homeless stage City Hall protest
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  Protest aimed at 'sweeps' of homeless tent camps in Seattle area.
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- Young Homeless and Gay in New York CIty
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  "Being homeless is not some musical like "Rent" where everyone can sing along and be happy about it," she said. "They [LGBT youth] are afraid to go to any place for help because they’ve been taught their whole lives that the way they are is wrong. They are afraid someone will hurt them; kill them."
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- Tractor clearing brush kills man, sparking policy review
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Post-Intelligencer
  Seattle isn't dealing with its homeless problem. Running over them with tractor mowers isn't going to help either. Autopsy results released Tuesday revealed that Palmer, 62, was alive when the S2 Spyder tractor's 18-foot arm with a rotary blade struck him in the head just before noon.
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- Las Vegas Homeless Youth Survey
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  "Isn't it sad when life on the streets of Las Vegas is better than their home environment?'" -Kathleen Butin, homeless youth advocate
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- 94 deaths of homeless people highlight lack of care
  Posted by Jeff from Seattle Times
  In 2005, 94 homeless people died, up 15 percent from 2004 and 22 percent from 2003. And with an average age of 47, they were relatively young compared with the current U.S. life expectancy of 77-½ years.
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okami comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

sure. . .that’s about three times what i’m paying on my house. . .which takes up half my retirement. . .
affordable? not to people worse off than me.

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1:22 am 7/02/08
Jeff comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

Nickels may be a community leading green mayor but he’s also a developer’s mayor and paul allen’s mayor and a do-little mayor on transit.

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11:35 pm 7/01/08
lizsternberg comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I was motivated to write to May Nickels in response to this. Here’s what I wrote to him:
"I do not believe $1115 in rent a month is "Affordable housing."

The fact that there are many well to do business people in Seattle should not put a shadow over the Childcare professionals, construction workers, educators, and Administrative Assistants who make less than 40K a year. If they had to pay $1115 a month it would most certainly be well over 30% of their income.

Are you trying to turn Seattle into an elitist community, or what?"

If you feel the same way, you should email important officials too.

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11:22 pm 7/01/08
Aisleace comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I always heard that rent or housing shoud be 25% of your salary. That $1115 a month works out to a salary of $53520 a year. They must be rich in Seattle if low income singles (because it’s a studio apartment) are making over $53000 a year. Based on a 40 hour week that works out to $25.48/hour.

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9:36 pm 7/01/08
mymanjones comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I live on Social Security only. My income is less than $900 a month. HUD gives we senior citizens a place to live at 30% of income after medical expenses. Try it sometime. Going to the bathroom on a regular basis is our form of joy.

Don Jones

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8:57 pm 7/01/08
newscloud2 comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

I think I heard someone call the crane the official bird of Seattle.
See http://www.crosscut.com/real-estate/12205/Skyline%2C 2008/

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5:11 pm 7/01/08
j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:
Seattle Mayor and Council Think $1,115 a Month for Rent is Affordable Housing

endentured housitude to the fascist bankers

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5:05 pm 7/01/08