Construction Zone: Firehouse Flats complex under construction in Duluth
September 9, 2012 at 7:00 pm in Duluth News Tribune
Firehouse Flats, at Fourth Street and Second Avenue East in Duluth will provide affordable housing for working families.
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Other cities have redone their urban areas to attract upscale residents- why does Duluth continue to do the opposite?
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I wish them well with this project, but whenever they say “affordable housing for working families,” they often end up just letting anyone in who needs “affordable (or “Free”) housing,” including Section 8. SSI, MFIP, EBT, etc. aka “free”) housing. There are so many people on various forms of assistance that the archetypal “working family” really no longer exists. Yes, I know there are some honest people who, for whatever reason, just can’t land a job paying much over minimum wage, and bless their hearts for enduring, and sometimes enjoying, the service work the rest of us would be helpless without. But our society seems to be asking the question, more and more, “Why work for a low wage when you can get on the government gravy train and make the same, maybe more, plus get a free place to live, free food, etc?”
To whomever’s in charge of these new rental units. Please give actual working low income people (those with real jobs, and a reason to get out of bed in the morning) a fair chance at these units before filling them up with Handout-Expecters and their families of young Handout-Expecter trainees . Thank you.
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The developer probably got a fed grant to defray the cost of the project. Grant prob came with strings. That’s my guess.
I’m into the aesthetics of the development and as it’s in CONSTRUCTION ZONE – I have one question:
**** Why are they framing a brick building? You mean it’s really not a brick building because the builder is doing it on the cheap and simply giving it a brick facade rather than erecting a proper masonry bldg.
Multiple dwellings of frame construction should be banned from Duluth on health and safety grounds, first and heritage and durability grounds, second. They’re unsuitable and unsafe.
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