D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned.
Washington Post,
by
Peter Jamison
Original Article
Posted By: AltaD,
4/17/2019 10:24:46 AM
The SWAT team, the overdose, the complaints of pot smoke in the air and feces in the stairwell — it would be hard to pinpoint a moment when things took a turn for the worse at Sedgwick Gardens, a stately apartment building in Northwest Washington. But the Art Deco complex, which overlooks Rock Creek Park and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is today the troubled locus of a debate on housing policy in a city struggling with the twin crises of homelessness and gentrification.(Snip) when D.C. housing officials dramatically increased the value of rental subsidies.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
StormCnter 4/17/2019 10:35:09 AM (No. 36625)
I continue to be appalled by the bathroom habits of the homeless. I know all of them aren´t mentally disabled, but it seems all of them have forgotten potty-training. Do they do it because everyone else is doing it in their immediate environment?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
earlybird 4/17/2019 10:37:59 AM (No. 36635)
In order to have good bathroom habits, one must have a bathroom. Apparently they adapt to not having a bathroom handy. Some may be making statements. Some are undoubtedly mentally ill.
We read a while back that 65% of the population in India use the streets as their bathrooms.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 4/17/2019 10:52:11 AM (No. 36624)
This is a perfect example showcasing how liberals live in an academic utopia. If a social issue exists, they support it, as long as they are not directly affected by it. Liberals love raising taxes to pay for more social services, but if you try to build a homeless shelter in Malibu, if you subsidize homeless in Sedgewick Gardens, if you annoince that illegal migrants are going to be released in liberal sanctuary cities, well, NIMBY. FYI Martha McCallum painted Bernie Sanders into a corner when she pressed him of releasing illegals in sanctuary cities. She asked him where should they be released and he replied there should be more facilities built on the border. McCallum pressed him as to why the border communities should bear the burden when there are so many nice sanctuary cities like Chicago, Philadelphia, SanFran, etc. Bernie changed the subject because he couldn´t answer.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 4/17/2019 10:53:26 AM (No. 36630)
This just goes to show you that you can dress a cat up, make him walk around on his hind legs, and have him pretend he´s human, but when you turn loose a few mice, the cat suddenly begins acting like a cat again.
In this case, these people are doing what they´ve always done--rich surroundings or poor. That´s not to say I´m better than them; that´s to say that we humans all have a problem--a sin problem, and sometimes that problem is very destructive, not only to the people who live it, but to everything and everyone around them, too.
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Years ago in my city the government placed Hatian refugees in a huge number of apartments being built for students near the LSU campus. To this day, it is an area to be avoided.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mizzmac 4/17/2019 10:57:17 AM (No. 36638)
Democrats over wine: "We´d like our homeless house trained, and preferably several blocks away."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
WV.Hillbilly 4/17/2019 11:01:04 AM (No. 36640)
"The goal was to give tenants who had previously clustered in impoverished, high-crime areas east of the Anacostia River a shot at living in more desirable neighborhoods."
The reason it was a desirable neighborhood was exactly because the tenants who clustered in impoverished, high-crime areas east of the Anacostia River couldn´t afford to live there.
Move them in and it rapidly becomes an impoverished, high-crime area west of the Anacostia River.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Texastealady 4/17/2019 11:04:01 AM (No. 36628)
To quote ´Q´ (sorry I HAVE to)...
"These people are stupid!"
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
anniebc 4/17/2019 11:05:07 AM (No. 36623)
"in a city struggling with the twin crises of homelessness and gentrification."
Gentrification is a crises equal or equated to homelessness? I think homelessness should be equated with destructive leftist policies. However, gentrification is also results from leftist policies. Leftism causes crime to increase, work ethics and motivation to succeed declines, rich get richer while the poor get poorer and depend on handouts and welfare. And, leftists keep the cycle going until boom! The problems are next door, and we can´t have that, now can we?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GO3 4/17/2019 12:07:47 PM (No. 36631)
Ah yes, Anacostia. Where firefights happen at the metro station at one in the afternoon.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
shalimar 4/17/2019 12:12:46 PM (No. 36621)
FTA: A majority of the D.C. Council is backing a bill, introduced by Nadeau, that would require buildings with at least 20 units and 30 percent or more of them occupied by tenants receiving housing assistance to offer on-site access to social services such as health care, nutrition counseling and child care.
I´m going to take a wild guess that drug users don´t think about nutrition very often, if at all.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
bad-hair 4/17/2019 12:13:53 PM (No. 36632)
I believe but I may be wrong that Occasionally-Cognizant lives in upscale government subsidized housing and apparently can´t afford furniture. Wonder what the neighbors think about that.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
janjan 4/17/2019 12:41:58 PM (No. 36627)
Very typical liberal solution. Put the mentally ill and drug addicted homeless into housing paid for by taxpayers and call anyone who objects a ‘raaaaaacist’.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 4/17/2019 1:16:53 PM (No. 36620)
But it as gone as predicted by adults.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 4/17/2019 1:18:59 PM (No. 36639)
Perhaps the country would be ahead of we transported the homeless to Mexico and sent the illegals to where the homeless came from.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 4/17/2019 1:58:04 PM (No. 36636)
Shock and surprise . . . (s/o)
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
fourpmfox 4/17/2019 2:03:22 PM (No. 36622)
This nonsense has been tried in many different cities, always with the same results....FAILURE!!!
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Penney 4/17/2019 3:54:34 PM (No. 36634)
Surprise surprise. Is anyone surprised? ...Why don´t the pols ever think through their own policies when so many others can often see & know the inevitable results? Lefty pols have no common sense! ...Worse still, maybe they do?!
MAGA
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
DVC 4/17/2019 5:15:16 PM (No. 36629)
Only because the planners were totally unrealistic fools. Any reasonably sensible person would have predicted this exactly, far in advance.
Only surprising to fools.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
jj1319 4/17/2019 5:45:06 PM (No. 36633)
Mr/Mrs Hillbilly uses logic that is difficult to argue with. Bravo.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
DVC 4/17/2019 8:18:52 PM (No. 36626)
#2, your comment about India is correct. But far worse is that the Indian government, trying to corral diseases like cholera is working public education campaigns to get Indians to use bathrooms and toilets.
Unfortunately, many resist toilets as "unnatural and unsanitary", and openly prefer to defecate out in the open, not even "in the bushes". Bizarre, and disgusting.
A close family member worked in India for part of a year. It was not unusual for a current model shiny Mercedes to pull over, a mother and child, very well dressed get out, and the 5 year old to be ´taken for a walk´ like a dog, and take a dump in full view of everyone, in the dirt beside a busy street.
Amazing lack of civilized behavior over there in many ways.
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Yes, this article made me smile. DC liberals feeling the impact of their liberal politicians policies.