Union Station smells like urine, has a homeless problem, and is half deserted.

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02/09/2022 08:06

Subject: Re:Union Station smells like urine, has a homeless problem, and is half deserted.

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Anonymous wrote:I wrote about the woman who has lived at the bus stop for 30 years. She's told me all these decades, she has never been able to get into a shelter. Even when offered laundry showers or clean clothes she won't accept. She won't apply for food stamps, a phone or stimulus checks either. She only will accept a free home in a high income neighborhood. She doesn’t want an apartment. She said she won't accept a job unless it is above $80k. She doesn't believe a lesser paying job is worth the effort and she's a "precious life" deserving of the best. Applying for benefits is offensive. She said she shouldnt have to jump through hoops, if she has a need it should be given to her by the government, corporations and the wealthy residents of upper NW. She would rather go from church to church for food than apply for food stamps or social security.

Her mentality is she shouldn't have to pay for anything ever

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She thinks there's a voucher for everything and should be given to her just for asking, no questions or conditions otherwise, she stays at the bus stop and isn't budging. Society owes her. She is a "precious life". Deserving of "the very best".

Can you imagine these people in apartments with the general population, using communal washers and dryers in an apartment complex ( if they even know how to wash clothes), in your neighborhood supermarket? Aren't you worried about your children playing in the neighborhood with them wondering the streets?

No apartment will solve their problems. They want to be our problem. Sometimes I get the feeling the "unhoused" live to be a nuisance. They are far more clever and manipulative than you could ever imagine. They have the churches and non profits fawning over them as if they are the most victimized, poor, helpless, innocent souls. They won't hesitate to steal are do bodily harm to anyone on a whim.

There should be a march to demand institutionalizing them. Trust me, most won't know the difference between an apartment or mental hospital. They'll be safe there. No more government money to the swindling, crafty landlords who never lose, and own the courts and DC government.

She's also another who claims their isn't enough public restrooms and wants those public restroom and shower booths on every street corner. She won't use one in a shelter or any other indoor location though.

When given a free chicken meal at the local church, she has to inspect the chicken cut on the tray and will only eat if she can choose the plate, even though they are all 100% the exact same.

I just don't see how any of these people can successfully live on their own amongst the general population.Everything is an argument, nothing satisfies her.

I think of her on cold days, a lot, but I know it's a hopeless situation. Sometimes people can't be helped. It used to bother me, but I'm just wasting my time and resources. Resources should go to those who can and want to be helped.

Doesn't she understand that aside from trust fund babies, the rest of us do have to work for a living, that we don't all make $80k, that most of us don't get free homes and even with an inherited family home you have to still pay the taxes and bills on it? She is definitely mentally ill, in delusional denial about the realities of life.