Downtown apartments housing low-income residents are likely to become boutique hotel rooms.

[Tommymac]

5. The same thing happened in Winchester VA in the 1990's.

A shelter had been set up for homeless folks in an old abandoned downtown hotel in the 1980's; this after Raygun kicked all the patients out of psychiatric hospitals causing a slew of homeless folks with disabilities to take to the streets.

Then in the late 1990's after the building had been renovated enough to house people, a hotel chain bought it and kicked everyone out to set up a boutique for profit hotel. The 9 out of 10 rethuglican Council at the time welcomed it as they thought the homeless sitting outside the hotel in chairs were an 'eyesore'...but then all of the displaced folks (and all had mental disabilities) started sleeping on the new downtown walking mall...the council's little rethuglican heads exploded.