DC Permanently Removing NoMA Underpass Encampments

[Anonymous]

Wow, pretty soon we won't be able to refer to DC as a dump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time I see encampments, I suffer rapid onset GFS, ghetto fatigue syndrome. A small minority of people are allowed to ruin everything for everyone else, while everyone excuses bad behavior or stays silent. If you want to do full ghetto, that’s great. But don’t do it in NW. it’s like reverse gentrification.

Imagine moving into someone's city and then complaining about the people there before you.

You all never run out of audacity.

Do u think these people have been here forever? Not so and not in NW, living animal style. Imagine moving into a city and inconveniencing everyone else there before you bc you cannot bring yourself to live in free traditional gov housing.

[Anonymous]

Will the same be done with the encampment by Schneider’s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time I see encampments, I suffer rapid onset GFS, ghetto fatigue syndrome. A small minority of people are allowed to ruin everything for everyone else, while everyone excuses bad behavior or stays silent. If you want to do full ghetto, that’s great. But don’t do it in NW. it’s like reverse gentrification.

Imagine moving into someone's city and then complaining about the people there before you.

You all never run out of audacity.

Imagine the audacity of thinking a city belongs to anyone.

[Anonymous]

Did anyone read OP's article? The guy they interviewed is actually from Florida but he picked DC because it's more comfortable for him. So this is not just about "home grown" homelessness but also other states dumping on us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.hillrag.com/2021/09/10/dc-permanently-removing-noma-underpass-encampments/

By the end of the month, the NoMa underpass encampments will be disbanded with residents placed in permanent supportive housing. Thank goodness, this initiative is long overdue. Of course there are critics who are complaining that providing housing is "criminalizing" homelessness. Ridiculous. I look forward to feeling connected to the Metro station and businesses on the other side of the underpass that I've been avoiding because the walk through the encampments was so unpleasant. Hopefully this is the first of many successful steps in clearing out that tent cities that have sprouted up across the city.

You really believe DC is going to provide housing for all these people before clearing the encampments? Yeah, right. They're just going to keep pushing the people out of the way of whatever needs to be cleaned up for development.

I'd love to be pleasantly surprised.

What are they developing in an underpass?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Did anyone read OP's article? The guy they interviewed is actually from Florida but he picked DC because it's more comfortable for him. So this is not just about "home grown" homelessness but also other states dumping on us.

I was going to mention that myself. A lot of cities seem to have this quiet policy of giving homeless folks a bus ticket to wherever they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time I see encampments, I suffer rapid onset GFS, ghetto fatigue syndrome. A small minority of people are allowed to ruin everything for everyone else, while everyone excuses bad behavior or stays silent. If you want to do full ghetto, that’s great. But don’t do it in NW. it’s like reverse gentrification.

Imagine moving into someone's city and then complaining about the people there before you.

You all never run out of audacity.

Imagine the audacity of thinking a city belongs to anyone.

Public space belongs to everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time I see encampments, I suffer rapid onset GFS, ghetto fatigue syndrome. A small minority of people are allowed to ruin everything for everyone else, while everyone excuses bad behavior or stays silent. If you want to do full ghetto, that’s great. But don’t do it in NW. it’s like reverse gentrification.

Imagine moving into someone's city and then complaining about the people there before you.

You all never run out of audacity.

You would be shocked at how few of the homeless are born and raised Washingtonians. They are almost all from somewhere else, drawn here by our friendly policies. Talk to enough of them and you might find more foreign born homeless than DC natives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time I see encampments, I suffer rapid onset GFS, ghetto fatigue syndrome. A small minority of people are allowed to ruin everything for everyone else, while everyone excuses bad behavior or stays silent. If you want to do full ghetto, that’s great. But don’t do it in NW. it’s like reverse gentrification.

Imagine moving into someone's city and then complaining about the people there before you.

You all never run out of audacity.

You would be shocked at how few of the homeless are born and raised Washingtonians. They are almost all from somewhere else, drawn here by our friendly policies. Talk to enough of them and you might find more foreign born homeless than DC natives.

Do you really mean immigrants or do you think DC is a nation-state?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every time I see encampments, I suffer rapid onset GFS, ghetto fatigue syndrome. A small minority of people are allowed to ruin everything for everyone else, while everyone excuses bad behavior or stays silent. If you want to do full ghetto, that’s great. But don’t do it in NW. it’s like reverse gentrification.

Imagine moving into someone's city and then complaining about the people there before you.

You all never run out of audacity.

You would be shocked at how few of the homeless are born and raised Washingtonians. They are almost all from somewhere else, drawn here by our friendly policies. Talk to enough of them and you might find more foreign born homeless than DC natives.

Do you really mean immigrants or do you think DC is a nation-state?

Actual immigrants, yes. From the Caribbean, Central America and West Africa in particular.

[Anonymous]

I would like them to also move encampments in parks and wooded areas. And libraries. TY.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would like them to also move encampments in parks and wooded areas. And libraries. TY.

I have a feeling that slowly but surely the city will be quietly returning a lot of the COVID ‘anything goes’ stuff back to normal as we move into the fall and winter. I doubt that few, if any, COVID changes will stick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like them to also move encampments in parks and wooded areas. And libraries. TY.

I have a feeling that slowly but surely the city will be quietly returning a lot of the COVID ‘anything goes’ stuff back to normal as we move into the fall and winter. I doubt that few, if any, COVID changes will stick.

Good! Let's clean up this mess already.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I would like them to also move encampments in parks and wooded areas. And libraries. TY.

I have a feeling that slowly but surely the city will be quietly returning a lot of the COVID ‘anything goes’ stuff back to normal as we move into the fall and winter. I doubt that few, if any, COVID changes will stick.

Good! Let's clean up this mess already.

A big part of it is that the business community and particularly real estate owners will probably start applying increasing levels of pressure on Bowser and we know where her priorities lie. Office vacancies are at a record high and there are too many shuttered retail storefronts. Traffic is bad everywhere except downtown, which is really not a good sign.