What DC metro area hotels/schools …

[Anonymous]

… will be used to house refugees? I assume the influx will increase like in NYC. If those facilities are not available, where will we house everyone? We already have an affordable housing issue.

[Anonymous]

DC already had a huge housing shortage, and hotels/shelters/other facilities are already over capacity. And to add capacity would be difficult, as DC is one of the most expensive places in the country, not to mention the massive amount of inertia in making anything happen - for example it's already been taking a decade plus to replace existing, ailing low-income housing like Greenleaf.

They should be sent somewhere that has cheap real estate and low cost of living but also capacity to build up services to support them.

Anything else would be a massively inefficient and wasteful use of what limited resources exist for dealing with it.

[Anonymous]

They will use the same hotels that the city was able to strike deals with for housing the unhoused. Housing COVID displaced and unhoused persons. You can do a quick Google search and see the hotels. There were seven I believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC already had a huge housing shortage, and hotels/shelters/other facilities are already over capacity. And to add capacity would be difficult, as DC is one of the most expensive places in the country, not to mention the massive amount of inertia in making anything happen - for example it's already been taking a decade plus to replace existing, ailing low-income housing like Greenleaf.

They should be sent somewhere that has cheap real estate and low cost of living but also capacity to build up services to support them.

Anything else would be a massively inefficient and wasteful use of what limited resources exist for dealing with it.

You wanted them. You voted for them. Step up

[Anonymous]

At the old COVID hotels:

https://www.npr.org/local/305/2022/08/24/1119234930/migrant-families-are-being-sheltered-at-a-d-c-quarantine-hotel

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC already had a huge housing shortage, and hotels/shelters/other facilities are already over capacity. And to add capacity would be difficult, as DC is one of the most expensive places in the country, not to mention the massive amount of inertia in making anything happen - for example it's already been taking a decade plus to replace existing, ailing low-income housing like Greenleaf.

They should be sent somewhere that has cheap real estate and low cost of living but also capacity to build up services to support them.

Anything else would be a massively inefficient and wasteful use of what limited resources exist for dealing with it.

You wanted them. You voted for them. Step up

This is a failed RW talking point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At the old COVID hotels:

https://www.npr.org/local/305/2022/08/24/1119234930/migrant-families-are-being-sheltered-at-a-d-c-quarantine-hotel

They are already full.

[Anonymous]

This isn't in DC, but this is what NY is doing. The hotels get paid more for asylum seekers, so they can displace other homeless individuals, such as veterans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/homeless-vets-booted-out-of-hotels-to-accommodate-migrants/ar-AA1bbk0J?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3bc8c0eeeed24a9687eb43ed3a9aaf71&ei=13

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This isn't in DC, but this is what NY is doing. The hotels get paid more for asylum seekers, so they can displace other homeless individuals, such as veterans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/homeless-vets-booted-out-of-hotels-to-accommodate-migrants/ar-AA1bbk0J?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3bc8c0eeeed24a9687eb43ed3a9aaf71&ei=13

This is another weird RW talking point. The right loves to say "but what about homeless vets" yet I have yet to see a single GOP sponsored bill that would take care of homeless vets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn't in DC, but this is what NY is doing. The hotels get paid more for asylum seekers, so they can displace other homeless individuals, such as veterans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/homeless-vets-booted-out-of-hotels-to-accommodate-migrants/ar-AA1bbk0J?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3bc8c0eeeed24a9687eb43ed3a9aaf71&ei=13

This is another weird RW talking point. The right loves to say "but what about homeless vets" yet I have yet to see a single GOP sponsored bill that would take care of homeless vets.

Let's just throw the vets on the street, right?
These non-citizen migrants who entered illegally are more entitled, right?
Don't you love your tax dollars going toward housing people who entered illegally and have given nothing to this country?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn't in DC, but this is what NY is doing. The hotels get paid more for asylum seekers, so they can displace other homeless individuals, such as veterans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/homeless-vets-booted-out-of-hotels-to-accommodate-migrants/ar-AA1bbk0J?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3bc8c0eeeed24a9687eb43ed3a9aaf71&ei=13

This is another weird RW talking point. The right loves to say "but what about homeless vets" yet I have yet to see a single GOP sponsored bill that would take care of homeless vets.

Are you saying that the link provided is wrong? That the displacement is not occurring?

It is not just a ‘talking point’ if it is actually occurring. Just something for people to be aware of.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn't in DC, but this is what NY is doing. The hotels get paid more for asylum seekers, so they can displace other homeless individuals, such as veterans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/homeless-vets-booted-out-of-hotels-to-accommodate-migrants/ar-AA1bbk0J?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3bc8c0eeeed24a9687eb43ed3a9aaf71&ei=13

This is another weird RW talking point. The right loves to say "but what about homeless vets" yet I have yet to see a single GOP sponsored bill that would take care of homeless vets.

Let's just throw the vets on the street, right?
These non-citizen migrants who entered illegally are more entitled, right?
Don't you love your tax dollars going toward housing people who entered illegally and have given nothing to this country?

Unless you can point to a Republican-sponsored bill to help homeless vets, this is just whataboutism and concern trolling. And before you ask "why does it have to be Republican-sponsored" - it's because whenever Dems try to do anything they get shut down by Republicans for trying to "give free sh*t to moochers" - that's why.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn't in DC, but this is what NY is doing. The hotels get paid more for asylum seekers, so they can displace other homeless individuals, such as veterans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/homeless-vets-booted-out-of-hotels-to-accommodate-migrants/ar-AA1bbk0J?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3bc8c0eeeed24a9687eb43ed3a9aaf71&ei=13

This is another weird RW talking point. The right loves to say "but what about homeless vets" yet I have yet to see a single GOP sponsored bill that would take care of homeless vets.

Let's just throw the vets on the street, right?
These non-citizen migrants who entered illegally are more entitled, right?
Don't you love your tax dollars going toward housing people who entered illegally and have given nothing to this country?

Unless you can point to a Republican-sponsored bill to help homeless vets, this is just whataboutism and concern trolling. And before you ask "why does it have to be Republican-sponsored" - it's because whenever Dems try to do anything they get shut down by Republicans for trying to "give free sh*t to moochers" - that's why.

Except that in THIS particular case, the Biden admin is paying more to these hotels to house migrants than it is to house homeless vets. So, effectively, the migrants are displacing the homeless vets.

How do you blame that on the Republicans?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC already had a huge housing shortage, and hotels/shelters/other facilities are already over capacity. And to add capacity would be difficult, as DC is one of the most expensive places in the country, not to mention the massive amount of inertia in making anything happen - for example it's already been taking a decade plus to replace existing, ailing low-income housing like Greenleaf.

They should be sent somewhere that has cheap real estate and low cost of living but also capacity to build up services to support them.

Anything else would be a massively inefficient and wasteful use of what limited resources exist for dealing with it.

Doesn’t exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn't in DC, but this is what NY is doing. The hotels get paid more for asylum seekers, so they can displace other homeless individuals, such as veterans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/homeless-vets-booted-out-of-hotels-to-accommodate-migrants/ar-AA1bbk0J?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=3bc8c0eeeed24a9687eb43ed3a9aaf71&ei=13

This is another weird RW talking point. The right loves to say "but what about homeless vets" yet I have yet to see a single GOP sponsored bill that would take care of homeless vets.

Let's just throw the vets on the street, right?
These non-citizen migrants who entered illegally are more entitled, right?
Don't you love your tax dollars going toward housing people who entered illegally and have given nothing to this country?

Unless you can point to a Republican-sponsored bill to help homeless vets, this is just whataboutism and concern trolling. And before you ask "why does it have to be Republican-sponsored" - it's because whenever Dems try to do anything they get shut down by Republicans for trying to "give free sh*t to moochers" - that's why.

Except that in THIS particular case, the Biden admin is paying more to these hotels to house migrants than it is to house homeless vets. So, effectively, the migrants are displacing the homeless vets.

How do you blame that on the Republicans?

Where's the funding coming from? CBP? Maybe ask why VA doesn't have funding.