Brickbat: Still Waiting

Massachusetts has 184,000 people on a waiting list for the state's 41,500 subsidized apartments. But an investigation by WBUR and ProPublica found nearly 2,300 of those state-funded apartments are vacant. Almost 1,800 of the apartments have been vacant for more than 60 days. And about 730 units have been empty for at least a year. The state pays local housing authorities to maintain and operate those units even when they are empty. Meanwhile, the state is also spending millions of dollars each month to house people temporarily in hotel rooms, dorm rooms, and other shelters.

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[JerricaSnyder]

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[JohnnieGault]

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[Fist of Etiquette]

Maybe the New Orleans mayor is using those vacant apartments. How high class are they?

[Nazi-Chipping Warlock]

Who could imagine incompetence from the government?! It's shocking, I say.

[Longtobefree]

"The state pays local housing authorities to maintain and operate those units even when they are empty."

Follow the money.
Gee, journalism ain't all that hard.
Which would you rather get paid to maintain, and empty apartment, or one full of icky poor people who expect things to work?

[mad.casual]

Which would you rather get paid to maintain, and empty apartment, or one full of icky poor people who expect things to work be handed to them on a platter?

FIFY

[mad.casual]

Meanwhile, the state is also spending millions of dollars each month to house people temporarily in hotel rooms, dorm rooms, and other shelters.

Because of you, Ron DeSantis!

[Brandybuck]

He's helping Florida subsidized housing by shipping those on waiting lists up to Massachusetts. Gawd gotta love big Republicanism.

[markm23]

Most likely, those apartments were trashed by the previous occupants and massive cleaning and repairs are needed before anyone can move in. I would expect a private landlord – not a government agency, but someone who is losing his own money while the unit remains vacant – would need nearly 60 days to get an apartment back into condition after a mentally-ill homeless person got through with it – and that’s if the need was anticipated and the budget for cleaning and repairs was already in place. If they have to wait for a city council or legislature to appropriate the funds, it’s likely to wait for years.

Keeping about 95% of the units in service seems to me to be pretty good for a government agency catering to the worst tenants.

[Ken Arromdee]

>Most likely, those apartments were trashed by the previous occupants and massive cleaning and repairs are needed before anyone can move in.

And of course the post is illustrated with a picture of a *new* apartment to gloss over this issue. Lying with pictures.

[Dillinger]

>>Still Waiting

crosseyed and painless.

[MWAocdoc]

Subsidized housing to protect the poor from evil landlords. So the state is now an evil landlord ... oops!