The Brooks

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor.

Right, we just had a race between Goulet, who said that there were issues with the housing vouchers that the city needed to address, and Frumin, who said that the city needed to step on the gas and have the city should spend more to bring more people into the Ward ("Ward 3 for all"). People voted for Frumin.

The post had an article just a few days ago about how the city's programs are turning neighborhoods that used to be good into drug dens:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/08/dc-paid-housing-chronic-homelessness/

But if that's what people vote for, that's what people vote for.

If Frumin had an at-large seat, I get it. But he is here to represent the interests of Ward 3. And packing buildings with the homeless and mentally ill is not only expensive, bad policy. It is also clear and present danger to many of the elderly residents who live in those buildings and supported him.

+1. He’s totally misread the room on crime issues.

[Anonymous]

Because not everyone can live in a civilized society. A lesson that can be hard to learn, especially for those with liberal leanings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I supported the construction of the Brooks family shelter and have donated money and supplies, but I'm beginning to regret it. The shelter worked well for the first couple years, but it has been less well run this year. An increasing number of residents smoke weed and panhandle aggressively in front of the Giant. I also routinely witness them throwing trash, including used diapers, in the planters instead of nearby trash cans. If their basic needs are being met, why are they panhandling? And aren't drugs against the rules at the shelter? They are definitely illegal in public places. And I know it is people from the shelter because I've witnessed them returning there.

People who used to walk to the Giant are now driving to avoid the mess in front. What is the best approach to dealing with this?

Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor.

ANCs have no say in this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I supported the construction of the Brooks family shelter and have donated money and supplies, but I'm beginning to regret it. The shelter worked well for the first couple years, but it has been less well run this year. An increasing number of residents smoke weed and panhandle aggressively in front of the Giant. I also routinely witness them throwing trash, including used diapers, in the planters instead of nearby trash cans. If their basic needs are being met, why are they panhandling? And aren't drugs against the rules at the shelter? They are definitely illegal in public places. And I know it is people from the shelter because I've witnessed them returning there.

People who used to walk to the Giant are now driving to avoid the mess in front. What is the best approach to dealing with this?

Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor.

ANCs have no say in this.

It’s so funny how ANC Commissioners throw up their hands and claim no authority when the issue is of no interest to them. Crimes, schools, panhandlers, etc. “We’re just simple unpaid volunteers…”. But on bike lanes and marijuana dispensaries they are are downright Churchillian. They speak of mandates and elections having consequences.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor. [/quote]

Right, we just had a race between Goulet, who said that there were issues with the housing vouchers that the city needed to address, and Frumin, who said that the city needed to step on the gas and have the city should spend more to bring more people into the Ward ("Ward 3 for all"). People voted for Frumin.

The post had an article just a few days ago about how the city's programs are turning neighborhoods that used to be good into drug dens:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/08/dc-paid-housing-chronic-homelessness/

But if that's what people vote for, that's what people vote for.[/quote]

If Frumin had an at-large seat, I get it. But he is here to represent the interests of Ward 3. And packing buildings with the homeless and mentally ill is not only expensive, bad policy. It is also clear and present danger to many of the elderly residents who live in those buildings and supported him. [/quote]

+1. He’s totally misread the room on crime issues. [/quote]

Agree. I listened to the debate on Pinto's crime bill and it seemed like he was going to go off and vote with JLG, when even Nadeau and Allen had fallen in line. He seems to like the sound of his own voice a lot. A disappointment. Shame Goulet did not get in, that all seemed quite orchestrated and odd.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I supported the construction of the Brooks family shelter and have donated money and supplies, but I'm beginning to regret it. The shelter worked well for the first couple years, but it has been less well run this year. An increasing number of residents smoke weed and panhandle aggressively in front of the Giant. I also routinely witness them throwing trash, including used diapers, in the planters instead of nearby trash cans. If their basic needs are being met, why are they panhandling? And aren't drugs against the rules at the shelter? They are definitely illegal in public places. And I know it is people from the shelter because I've witnessed them returning there.

People who used to walk to the Giant are now driving to avoid the mess in front. What is the best approach to dealing with this?

Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor.

ANCs have no say in this.

It's my understanding that approximately 3k of the 5k PSH vouchers are being used on the Connecticut and Wisconsin corridors.

[Anonymous]

Which buildings on Wisconsin?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I supported the construction of the Brooks family shelter and have donated money and supplies, but I'm beginning to regret it. The shelter worked well for the first couple years, but it has been less well run this year. An increasing number of residents smoke weed and panhandle aggressively in front of the Giant. I also routinely witness them throwing trash, including used diapers, in the planters instead of nearby trash cans. If their basic needs are being met, why are they panhandling? And aren't drugs against the rules at the shelter? They are definitely illegal in public places. And I know it is people from the shelter because I've witnessed them returning there.

People who used to walk to the Giant are now driving to avoid the mess in front. What is the best approach to dealing with this?

Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor.

ANCs have no say in this.

It's my understanding that approximately 3k of the 5k PSH vouchers are being used on the Connecticut and Wisconsin corridors.

You get that this is all on Bowser. She is petulant and she resents Ward 3. (Catania killed her here and she has never moved on.)

All the talk about Goulet and ANCs are distractions. (Goulet would have been better on crime, but he would have achieved nothing. Nobody wanted to work with him. He would have been issuing clever sound bites into the void and nothing more. (ANCs have nothing to do with this. The poster blaming them is just on his usual stalking horse.))

This is on the executive and always has been. Period. Full stop.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor.

Right, we just had a race between Goulet, who said that there were issues with the housing vouchers that the city needed to address, and Frumin, who said that the city needed to step on the gas and have the city should spend more to bring more people into the Ward ("Ward 3 for all"). People voted for Frumin.

The post had an article just a few days ago about how the city's programs are turning neighborhoods that used to be good into drug dens:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/08/dc-paid-housing-chronic-homelessness/

But if that's what people vote for, that's what people vote for.

You all have former Councilmember Elissa Silverman to thank for Frumin. When she started a smear campaign against Goulet and polling people, all of a sudden, Goulet was no longer the front runner and Frumin, who was a nobody, won the primary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I supported the construction of the Brooks family shelter and have donated money and supplies, but I'm beginning to regret it. The shelter worked well for the first couple years, but it has been less well run this year. An increasing number of residents smoke weed and panhandle aggressively in front of the Giant. I also routinely witness them throwing trash, including used diapers, in the planters instead of nearby trash cans. If their basic needs are being met, why are they panhandling? And aren't drugs against the rules at the shelter? They are definitely illegal in public places. And I know it is people from the shelter because I've witnessed them returning there.

People who used to walk to the Giant are now driving to avoid the mess in front. What is the best approach to dealing with this?

Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor.

ANCs have no say in this.

It's my understanding that approximately 3k of the 5k PSH vouchers are being used on the Connecticut and Wisconsin corridors.

You get that this is all on Bowser. She is petulant and she resents Ward 3. (Catania killed her here and she has never moved on.)

All the talk about Goulet and ANCs are distractions. (Goulet would have been better on crime, but he would have achieved nothing. Nobody wanted to work with him. He would have been issuing clever sound bites into the void and nothing more. (ANCs have nothing to do with this. The poster blaming them is just on his usual stalking horse.))

This is on the executive and always has been. Period. Full stop.

Stop trying to blame the mayor for everything. This is on Frumin now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I supported the construction of the Brooks family shelter and have donated money and supplies, but I'm beginning to regret it. The shelter worked well for the first couple years, but it has been less well run this year. An increasing number of residents smoke weed and panhandle aggressively in front of the Giant. I also routinely witness them throwing trash, including used diapers, in the planters instead of nearby trash cans. If their basic needs are being met, why are they panhandling? And aren't drugs against the rules at the shelter? They are definitely illegal in public places. And I know it is people from the shelter because I've witnessed them returning there.

People who used to walk to the Giant are now driving to avoid the mess in front. What is the best approach to dealing with this?

Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor.

ANCs have no say in this.

It's my understanding that approximately 3k of the 5k PSH vouchers are being used on the Connecticut and Wisconsin corridors.

You get that this is all on Bowser. She is petulant and she resents Ward 3. (Catania killed her here and she has never moved on.)

All the talk about Goulet and ANCs are distractions. (Goulet would have been better on crime, but he would have achieved nothing. Nobody wanted to work with him. He would have been issuing clever sound bites into the void and nothing more. (ANCs have nothing to do with this. The poster blaming them is just on his usual stalking horse.))

This is on the executive and always has been. Period. Full stop.

Stop trying to blame the mayor for everything. This is on Frumin now.

+1. A “Ward 3 for All” platform has consequences. And those of us who live on the Connecticut Ave corridor are witnessing the consequences. The blight, marijuana use, homelessness, etc. I was driving through our alley the other day with my kids and there was a guy with his pants around his ankles taking a dump.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC really needs to be held responsible for managing programs better. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/08/dc-paid-housing-chronic-homelessness/ It always seems to end up being a boon to developers...

DC isn't doing anyone any favors by turning a blind eye to this.

The overwhelming majority of the chronically homeless are chronically homeless due to drugs and/or mental health. DC law allows them to be involuntarily committed for treatment if a qualified healthcare professional thinks they need it. They should start doing that. Give them a choice, either a. be committed and go into treatment, or b. find somewhere other than DC to hang out and do drugs or terrorize a neighborhood with an untreated mental illness.

[Anonymous]

I’m definitely late to the party but I agree. I have stopped shopping at the Giant completely because it’s unsafe. The neighborhood has changed and there’s nothing we can do to be honest. It’s the end. The local public schools have deteriorated severely as well including Eaton which is zoned to the shelter. It’s really become a bad neighborhood and not a good place to raise a family anymorr. Curious to see where other folks are considering moving to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I supported the construction of the Brooks family shelter and have donated money and supplies, but I'm beginning to regret it. The shelter worked well for the first couple years, but it has been less well run this year. An increasing number of residents smoke weed and panhandle aggressively in front of the Giant. I also routinely witness them throwing trash, including used diapers, in the planters instead of nearby trash cans. If their basic needs are being met, why are they panhandling? And aren't drugs against the rules at the shelter? They are definitely illegal in public places. And I know it is people from the shelter because I've witnessed them returning there.

People who used to walk to the Giant are now driving to avoid the mess in front. What is the best approach to dealing with this?

Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor.

CM Frumin is going to leave Ward 3 worse off then when he was elected. He’s been a disaster. His ideas are bad for Ward 3 and he regularly gets rolled by the progressives on the Council. Need a reset.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s almost like progressive naive and idealistic policies lead to real world consequences. But I guess we get to become California, with all its homeless glory on display, in order to learn from our mistakes. Or not. Because there will always be some liberal trying to shoe horn in a shelter in a nice neighborhood.

No problem with having a well-run shelter in a "nice" neighborhood. But I have a problem with being told to just accept anti-social behavior on the surrounding streets and with DC just shrugging and doing nothing to fix the problem that they created.

Racist.