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Aldermen Go After Conditions In Cubicle HotelsUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-53030639430163494852013-01-27T18:13:58.125-06:002013-01-27T18:13:58.125-06:00If you guys knew how Ezra in conjunction with O.N....If you guys knew how Ezra in conjunction with O.N.E. brainwashes and uses its clients to further their political agenda, you would be protesting them with flaming torches and pitchforks.<br />A lot of these people are either slightly developmentally challenged or their mental health conditions do not really lead them to understanding that they're being used as pawns for a agenda that they couldn't possibly understand.Organic peregrine terra cotta bricolage cruelty- free locally outsourced maple nut crunchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16897850935620128528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-81171722296618660832013-01-22T23:07:22.875-06:002013-01-22T23:07:22.875-06:00Sean, the good thing about all these hard working ...Sean, the good thing about all these hard working guys staying at the Wilson Men's Hotel is that with minimum wage, they're taking home around $250 a week. Right now they're just paying 1/4 of their earnings on rent! It may have to be on the Southside, but these guys can live a lot better by paying just a little more and they get to avoid homelessness after all.<br /><br />Still, I have to wonder if perhaps some of these guys have a few problems that keep them stuck in a minimum wage job for years and years. Hey, maybe there's some issues with alcohol or drugs or perhaps some mental illness. If that's the case, maybe it's a good idea to get them hooked up with a case manager after all!<br /><br />But you're right, if they're all just hard working law abiding upright citizens, their minimum wage employment will now at least get the something much better than having chicken wire for a ceiling.holy moleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18006600794546900502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-22698856927071651982013-01-22T16:41:22.097-06:002013-01-22T16:41:22.097-06:00Sean, sigh...call the Mayors Office, call your Sta...Sean, sigh...call the Mayors Office, call your State and Federal Representatives... but dont try to hold Uptown hostage by keeping a fire trap and sex offender/drug user haven open until there is a replacement... FYI, Why do you not also call the other 49 Alderman and ask them if they can build it... the faster it closes, the safer for my children and let those that stay there call ONE and ask if they can bunk at their headquartersUptown SuperHero!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16978617436727705272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-74917764653775110142013-01-22T13:22:38.357-06:002013-01-22T13:22:38.357-06:00This comment has been removed by the author.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05173712914081376243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-19833863006414963262013-01-22T13:15:32.916-06:002013-01-22T13:15:32.916-06:00Holey why do you presume to ask me a question here...Holey why do you presume to ask me a question here when you ignore mine? Seems pretty arrogant. But to answer the question, I have no indication one way or the other from either alderman mentioned here where they intend to have the current residents of these buildings live if their buildings were to be shut down (which is why I have posted what I have), other than Cappleman saying that he would have them referred to "case managers" to help them find other housing. Referring them to already overburdened (due to ongoing state and federal budget cuts to mental health and human service providers) case managers is not the same has putting them into housing and it also does not create new housing stock for a population that is only losing affordable options in a market that already can't meet the demand for them. And by posting here I am indirectly asking the alderman as I know he and his advisors read and often post here. So to reiterate, I support the aldermen's efforts to get these buildings up to code, but I do not think any plan to close them is complete until it includes a plan to create new affordable housing options (which wouldn't have to be in Uptown for all you whiners) to replace what would be eliminated.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05173712914081376243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-30847824328981837882013-01-22T10:56:28.364-06:002013-01-22T10:56:28.364-06:00Sean, did you get any indication from the alderman...Sean, did you get any indication from the alderman that he was going to have these people live on the streets? Have you asked the alderman?holy moleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18006600794546900502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-41506491170051251792013-01-22T10:34:53.229-06:002013-01-22T10:34:53.229-06:00You are 100% correct!!!!You are 100% correct!!!!Tonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603743615493226875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-3711602861305730182013-01-22T10:05:13.151-06:002013-01-22T10:05:13.151-06:00Holey and uptown, you both seem to accused me of h...Holey and uptown, you both seem to accused me of having opinions or feelings I neither hold nor have expressed here. Why is that? I don't believe it is Uptown's or Uptown's alderman's responsibility to find or provide decent affordable housing for those at the margins of society. I just believe that if you are going to take away a needed housing resource from a segment of society that doesn't have the housing resources adequate to their needs as it is, you should also be working on creating new housing resources to replace what you are taking away. That is all. I could care less where replacement housing is created. I just don't see how making more people homeless and putting them on the streets helps any of us.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05173712914081376243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-60782276194278534412013-01-21T20:44:01.713-06:002013-01-21T20:44:01.713-06:00I was bored today and decided to utilize some news...I was bored today and decided to utilize some news sources and do a simple breakdown of Uptown shootings and homicides in 2012.<br /><br /><a href="http://uptownavenger.blogspot.com/2013/01/guide-to-uptown-violence-shootings-and.html" rel="nofollow">Bon apetit!</a>IrishPiratehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11339255909419333238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-43618663096395266252013-01-21T20:27:54.808-06:002013-01-21T20:27:54.808-06:00Alek, Sean is asking what the alderman is going to...Alek, Sean is asking what the alderman is going to do to find housing for these people who will have to move out of the Wilson Men's Club. This is not the first time that Uptown has been appointed as the community that needs more affordable housing; the Maryville TIF is the latest example. <br /><br />Perhaps the real question is why do some people feel it only the responsibility of an Uptown alderman to fix the affordable housing crisis for all of Chicago? It's time for others to do their share.holy moleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18006600794546900502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-36221891490517855212013-01-21T19:34:55.464-06:002013-01-21T19:34:55.464-06:00Make no mistake, many of these so called "Act...Make no mistake, many of these so called "Activist" organizations all over Chicago are actually poverty pimps and have no real interest in solving problems.Organic peregrine terra cotta bricolage cruelty- free locally outsourced maple nut crunchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16897850935620128528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-62462132193925324652013-01-20T19:00:11.135-06:002013-01-20T19:00:11.135-06:00"Seans... it is NOT Uptowns sole responsbilit..."Seans... it is NOT Uptowns sole responsbility to house every single indigent, homeless person, mentally ill person, drug addict, recently release felons and sex offenders, drug addicts and welfare cheats."<br /><br />strawman<br /><br />Sean never said that.Alekhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03828029859097663933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-41130852080361267882013-01-20T18:50:55.145-06:002013-01-20T18:50:55.145-06:00Everything and I mean everything is fleeting.
...Everything and I mean everything is fleeting. <br /><br />The days of Uptown having a dysfunctional alderman leading a dysfunctional coalition for dysfunctional goals are over.<br /><br />This of course calls for an IrishPirate <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncxR5JKLVA8" rel="nofollow">pretentious English</a> poetry link.<br /><br /><br />Ozymandias<br /><br />I met a traveller from an antique land<br />Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone<br />Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,<br />Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,<br />And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,<br />Tell that its sculptor well those passions read<br />Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,<br />The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:<br />And on the pedestal these words appear:<br />"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:<br />Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"<br />Nothing beside remains. Round the decay<br />Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare<br />The lone and level sands stretch far away.[1]<br /><br /><br />Seems fitting, huh Doc?<br />IrishPiratehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11339255909419333238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-5280855121608427412013-01-20T18:24:11.982-06:002013-01-20T18:24:11.982-06:00Seans... it is NOT Uptowns sole responsbility to h...Seans... it is NOT Uptowns sole responsbility to house every single indigent, homeless person, mentally ill person, drug addict, recently release felons and sex offenders, drug addicts and welfare cheats. Spread the fuc.ing joy around the city. The concentration of it in Uptown is ridiculous, unhealthy, unsafe and inexcusableUptown SuperHero!https://www.blogger.com/profile/16978617436727705272noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-6298724970040359972013-01-20T17:33:09.423-06:002013-01-20T17:33:09.423-06:00It's a fair question to ask. Where do we house...It's a fair question to ask. Where do we house people who are a combination of unintelligent, mentally ill, functionally illiterate, substance addicted, unemployable, disabled, and have no family support? (or have burned the bridges of family support, often as a result of mental illness, etc.) It's either facilities like these, or state-run institutions. And we don't seem to be willing to pay tax money to house these "freeloaders" at this point in our history. The streets are the default option. I'm not a fan of many of the poverty pimps of Uptown, but I don't have an answer for the alternative either.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16894368347703859212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-61067467340281018872013-01-20T15:45:05.003-06:002013-01-20T15:45:05.003-06:00I have been inside the Wilson Men's Club and a...I have been inside the Wilson Men's Club and agree that the living conditions there are horrible. These places are basically one step up from homeless shelters - which are worse - in that they offer some personal space people can use 24 hrs a day and keep their possessions in, as opposed to having to be on the streets from daybreak until 8 p.m. or so and taking all their belongings with them everyday. And the bathroom to resident ratio is also much worse in most homeless shelters. But the fact is these cubicle hotels do serve a need and if the people living there had the means to obtain better housing, they most likely would have. My point is, if you shut these cubicle hotels down (which I don't oppose), where do the aldermen propose the people living there go? And I realize most people posting here couldn't care less as long as they leave Uptown, but if you take away one option for housing they can afford, as deplorable to us as that housing may be, what do the Aldermen propose as alternatives? Most of the guys living in these cubilce hotels live on less than $700 a month. The supply of housing that could be afforded by someone with that income is already horribly outmatched by the demand, which is a big reason why these cubicle hotels have so many renters. So to me the plan to shut these hotels down is not complete until new options for housing that the current residents can afford are created.Seanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05173712914081376243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-83949720453173643312013-01-20T07:25:53.857-06:002013-01-20T07:25:53.857-06:00To Mr. Cappleman, IP and all the others who champi...To Mr. Cappleman, IP and all the others who champion the end of SRO's - BRAVO! I've always said that the controversy about gentrification was contrived to keep the "help the poor stay poor" industry in Uptown alive. Even if there were any benefits to these organizations for the poor, it would have made the most sense for them to sell their properties when the real estate market was flying high, buy in a neighborhood that wasn't as desirable for redevelopment as Uptown, and spend the balance of the sales proceeds on helping the poor. This would have been a win-win for all. Instead, we had a nasty, stressful "civil war" as IP put it in which one side is losing badly. I have zero sympathy for those organizations and will dance on their graves once the inevitable happens. Uptown Revivalisthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07226460630727768548noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-41215491958278603542013-01-20T00:32:22.355-06:002013-01-20T00:32:22.355-06:00ONE has an invested interest in keeping people in ...ONE has an invested interest in keeping people in bad situations. I know some people may think they are here to help the poor and disadvantaged, they are not. They are here to keep you right where you are, poor and disadvantaged. You don't believe me just look at who volunteers to help with their causes.but when its time to hire someone, they wil not offer the positions to the volunteers. Without people living in poverty and staying in poverty, ONE would cease to exist.Tonihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09603743615493226875noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-12682941220049986782013-01-19T23:36:36.150-06:002013-01-19T23:36:36.150-06:00I'm glad that a lot of you agree with me on th...I'm glad that a lot of you agree with me on these so-called "activists", because I have had arguments with social workers, angry, foaming at the mouth arguments about O.N.E. and Ezra, in which I was called "ungrateful" by people who really should have chosen another career.Organic peregrine terra cotta bricolage cruelty- free locally outsourced maple nut crunchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16897850935620128528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-36187954779720719762013-01-19T18:12:08.622-06:002013-01-19T18:12:08.622-06:00Cappelman is a brave man to confront the owners of...Cappelman is a brave man to confront the owners of these seedy SROs. This guy truly is the finest alderman Uptown has had in 50 years and is one of the finest leaders in the city. <br /><br />These places have "outlasted their time" by decades for a reason, and that reason is that they are obscenely profitable for their unprincipled, predatory owners.<br /><br />Think about what it takes to be a good landlord... my landlord runs a beautiful courtyard in Rogers Park, which he maintains well. The halls are well decorated, clean, and smell good, the lawn is a showcase, the building has been tuckpointed, re-wired, has new gas pipes, new windows. As apartments occupied by the same tenant for decades are vacated, they are substantially remodeled. And all of this in a 4 or 5 room apartment that is beautiful and moderately priced.. and priced only a couple of hundred a month higher than a reeking SRO room with a shared bath, obscene vermin infestations, filthy conditions, dangerous wiring, and the scum of the planet roaming the place. <br /><br />Who do you think makes more money? We can be grateful that most landlords take pride in their property and want tenants they aren't terrified of, because the SRO owner makes a lot more money with a fraction the investment per square foot, even when you factor in his legal expenses. That's why the only way to improve these places is to go after the owners and shut the places down. Force is the only thing that works with the greedy scum who operate these holes. The North Coasthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14292115710427172625noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-60718822137041687052013-01-19T16:31:34.257-06:002013-01-19T16:31:34.257-06:00I received services from Ezra and sort of fell in ...I received services from Ezra and sort of fell in with them and O.N.E. from peer pressure back when I was a Lawrence House victim, I wish I could unload the full story but I completely disagree with them and don't really feel they have our best interests in mind, others have tossed around terms like "petite bourgeoisie communists" in regards to them and Lakeview action coaltiion, I don't think I'm quite ready to go that far yet, but it's approaching the truth.<br />Whenever I see one of their acolytes in their brightly colored "gimmee" t-shirts, i lecture them on how their efforts are actually cheapening our neighborhoods, not helping it.<br />The final straw was when I had an argument with somebody at Ezra because a young man, clean shaved and nice clothes was panhandling right in front of my building's entrance and she was fine with that, and told me I was wrong to not want that happening. That "he belonged" in my neighborhood.<br />That kid tried to assault me two months later and got a few free meals and a place to sleep downtown.Organic peregrine terra cotta bricolage cruelty- free locally outsourced maple nut crunchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16897850935620128528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-91736030213828449642013-01-19T12:57:14.615-06:002013-01-19T12:57:14.615-06:00I think JPUSA is unfairly judged on this site. I ...I think JPUSA is unfairly judged on this site. I know they are a little weird but they have done some good things.It's Obama's Faulthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02471177475479988262noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-90281774932506292122013-01-19T12:23:05.954-06:002013-01-19T12:23:05.954-06:00Next,
Bear...you may be a whole lot of things, bu...Next,<br /><br />Bear...you may be a whole lot of things, but innocent ain't one of 'em. <br /><br />Spevvy...I think your line may become my new tagline for awhile:<br /><br />suck it bitches, change is coming...for the better. <br /><br />That should be put up on signs at each corner of the neighborhood.<br /><br /><br />Xavier_Swordsman....lighten up man. This isn't the first time you've criticized me and it hopefully won't be the last.<br /><br />On occasion UU has not posted my comments. When that happens I always remind UU of a certain soiree I organized after Shiller announced she wasn't running for reelection. <br /><br />Let's just say I have photos and video of all the UU moderators in various states of undress or "dress". It's like a remake of "Caligula" from 1979 only with fewer togas and more leather/whips. CHeck the movie out. The 1979 movie that is to get a flavor of what I speak of. Malcolm McDowell and Peter O'Toole give outstanding performances.<br /><br />As did "Caring Neighbor" and a few others in the Uptown version.<br /><br />Seriously, if you don't like my comments don't read em.<br /><br />As Bear said people generally either love me or hate me, but to really annoy me you just need to ignore me.<br /><br />Aye dere's da rub.<br /><br />IrishPiratehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11339255909419333238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-25821894729032678642013-01-19T12:05:50.138-06:002013-01-19T12:05:50.138-06:00Before I make a longer comment a "quickie&quo...Before I make a longer comment a "quickie" for Americanlt.<br /><br />How does Mister Poochy react to the shenanigans at the Wilson Men's Hotel?<br /><br />Does he take doggie meds to calm his nerves?<br /><br />Do you have any left over I could buy or sell at the hotel?IrishPiratehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11339255909419333238noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1957537260422450632.post-29974885344578059292013-01-19T12:04:42.658-06:002013-01-19T12:04:42.658-06:00IP, since I know you're a fan, maybe you can c...IP, since I know you're a fan, maybe you can convince Carrie Fisher to come finish the task she started. Just be sure not to let anyone grovel in front of the building.Uptown Risinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00403684989803659913noreply@blogger.com