Increased homelessness in Cathedral Heights/Glover Park

[Anonymous]

In the past couple of months I have seem more people whom I think are homeless in the neighborhood and recently learned of how a nearby apartment building is dealing with an issue of a homeless person breaking into the building, breaking into the packages room, sleeping there naked, and urinating on the packages. Has anyone else noticed a change? I don't think there are any nearby services that can offer shelter and/or support so that could be part of the cause.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In the past couple of months I have seem more people whom I think are homeless in the neighborhood and recently learned of how a nearby apartment building is dealing with an issue of a homeless person breaking into the building, breaking into the packages room, sleeping there naked, and urinating on the packages. Has anyone else noticed a change? I don't think there are any nearby services that can offer shelter and/or support so that could be part of the cause.

Which building is this?

[Anonymous]

There is this increased vagrancy city wide. Call the mayor, your council to act on this - and non emergency 311 or mental health wellness checks if you directly observe this behavior. Be a homeless interrupter .

[Anonymous]

We have had someone sleeping in his car for over 2 weeks now in Spring Valley. MPD called multiple times, and they claim there is nothing they can do, that the car is "legally registered". Car is registered out of state so at a minimum it should have DC registration/get ticketed after 30 days (MPD knew this guy and said he's been around "for weeks" moving from place to place so it's been in DC >30 days). There is also a city ordinance that you can't live in a car. MPD won't enforce. He was taken away by ambulance and was gone a few days and is now back, sleeping in the car and urinating in public. Mary Cheh's office also unresponsive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have had someone sleeping in his car for over 2 weeks now in Spring Valley. MPD called multiple times, and they claim there is nothing they can do, that the car is "legally registered". Car is registered out of state so at a minimum it should have DC registration/get ticketed after 30 days (MPD knew this guy and said he's been around "for weeks" moving from place to place so it's been in DC >30 days). There is also a city ordinance that you can't live in a car. MPD won't enforce. He was taken away by ambulance and was gone a few days and is now back, sleeping in the car and urinating in public. Mary Cheh's office also unresponsive.

Where else could he do it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have had someone sleeping in his car for over 2 weeks now in Spring Valley. MPD called multiple times, and they claim there is nothing they can do, that the car is "legally registered". Car is registered out of state so at a minimum it should have DC registration/get ticketed after 30 days (MPD knew this guy and said he's been around "for weeks" moving from place to place so it's been in DC >30 days). There is also a city ordinance that you can't live in a car. MPD won't enforce. He was taken away by ambulance and was gone a few days and is now back, sleeping in the car and urinating in public. Mary Cheh's office also unresponsive.

Keep calling. Call every time. They have to do a wellness check every time you call. Think he's been on our street in another part of Ward 3. Considering how they go after DC taxpayers for tickets/revenue, their refusal to ticket or tow out of towners right now is a separate and astounding issue. The construction vehicles from out of town parked everywhere with multiple stacked tickets on a daily basis. This is just an extension of that.

[Anonymous]

Vote for different people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have had someone sleeping in his car for over 2 weeks now in Spring Valley. MPD called multiple times, and they claim there is nothing they can do, that the car is "legally registered". Car is registered out of state so at a minimum it should have DC registration/get ticketed after 30 days (MPD knew this guy and said he's been around "for weeks" moving from place to place so it's been in DC >30 days). There is also a city ordinance that you can't live in a car. MPD won't enforce. He was taken away by ambulance and was gone a few days and is now back, sleeping in the car and urinating in public. Mary Cheh's office also unresponsive.

Where else could he do it?

Just FYI, urinating in public is often charged as a sexual exposure offense. It can be really damaging to people's records who are answering the "when you gotta go" call, yet homeless in DC are given carte blanche on a regular basis? Doesn't make sense. Address it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have had someone sleeping in his car for over 2 weeks now in Spring Valley. MPD called multiple times, and they claim there is nothing they can do, that the car is "legally registered". Car is registered out of state so at a minimum it should have DC registration/get ticketed after 30 days (MPD knew this guy and said he's been around "for weeks" moving from place to place so it's been in DC >30 days). There is also a city ordinance that you can't live in a car. MPD won't enforce. He was taken away by ambulance and was gone a few days and is now back, sleeping in the car and urinating in public. Mary Cheh's office also unresponsive.

Where else could he do it?

There are a ton of churches, homeless shelters, public agencies that provide restrooms to the homeless. Their addresses are well known.

[Anonymous]

There's a real estate office on 14th St. that lets the homeless use their bathrooms.