Stabbing at The Brandywine in 4500 block Connecticut Ave. NW DC

[Anonymous]

^Friend was told that people were moved in to that building in Cathedral Heights who had lived in Union Station for a decade. With Housing First there is no screening for suitability, time in a halfway home with 24/7 support and supervision, housing earned, in fact all of that is explicitly NOT allowed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went back and looked at campaign issues in the last Ward 3 election. Crime was not even listed as an issue. That tells you how quickly things have spiralled out of control.

People, we need candidates! Retirees are great for this - they have plenty of time to give. Talk to your wise neighbors and colleagues, please!!

What?! The WaPo poll showed crime was the biggest Ward 3 concern. Every candidate except Frumin and Bergman was talking about crime.

[Anonymous]

Honestly, we need a full campaign to make GGW a dirty word. That group has done so much damage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, we need a full campaign to make GGW a dirty word. That group has done so much damage.

Is that the group Nadeau's husband works for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, we need a full campaign to make GGW a dirty word. That group has done so much damage.

The whole "Smart Growth" lobby is a dirty word, from GGW being funded by the development industry and DC taxpayers, to shameless MAGA Trumper operatives cynically spinning that large scale, upmarket development is all about "affordable housing."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, we need a full campaign to make GGW a dirty word. That group has done so much damage.

Is that the group Nadeau's husband works for?

Yes, he is on GGW's board of directors, a fact GGW repeatedly omits when endorsing his wife (at least until they get shamed into adding a line about after they publish the endorsement). They're all such incredibly shady people.

[Anonymous]

The voucher system is a form of a ponzi scheme. Laura Zeilinger, Sam Zell and Judge Zeldon are masters at tricking. Watch out, they will trick you right out of your apartment if you are white, disabled and have cancer and take your benefits to give to a black person in the name of racial justice, leaving you out on the sidewalk while all of your belongings are looted. They don't honor binding legal agreements either.

Don't let them trick you.

Will you be tricked this Halloween?

Happy Halloween 3rd Ward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, we need a full campaign to make GGW a dirty word. That group has done so much damage.

Is that the group Nadeau's husband works for?

It is.

I wonder who they endorsed in her race?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Hi everyone, my mom has lived in an apartment building in NorthWest DC for almost a decade now. Over the last two years several new people have moved into the building into new rent controlled units that the city decided the apartment complex must have. Recently two families have started having violent confrontations in the lobby together. My mom was walking into the lobby earlier this week when a fight broke out culminating in a woman beaten with a “Please sign in” metal sign and a knife being pulled. My mom was terrified and ran but now I worry that next time it could be a gun. My question is, does she have any legal recourse on recovering her security deposit and moving out given as how this is only the most recent incident in a series of violent incidents? Also there is no security guard only a front desk concierge.

Tldr; mom lives in building with new violent tenants can she get her security deposit back and move?

The above was posted on Reddit. Comments asked if this was The Brandywine.

The police report for the incident that is the subject of the thread stated that 2 females, known to one another, got into a fight and stabbed one another in the back. (Literally.) Both refused transport to the hospital. So, could, in fact, have been The Brandywine his mom lives in. Plenty of other options in Connecticut and Wisconsin corridors but there is a lot of violence INSIDE The Brandywine. Used to be so many Murch families.

I think if people with vouchers commit crimes or behave violently, they should lose the voucher and the apartment. if they have a mental illness they should be moved to places that can help them (group homes with staff onside to help with medications or mental hospitals where they cannot go out for people who are violent and a threat to themselves or others). if not, they should be kicked out of the apartment period. even assuming that housing is a right (and it's a big if), living at the taxpayer expense with 150% the already high rent in the best part of town is definitely not a right. I am sure there are plenty of lower income families that would love some help to live in the apartments on Wisconsin or CT and send their kids to local schools and that stab each other in the lobby when they have a disagreement, throw the girlfriend out of the 8th floor window or shoot around at 3pm on Saturday near a play ground. I came to DC in 2001 and rented for 10 yrs apartments on CT, first as a couple and then as a couple with two kids, lived in two different buildings and it was great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Hi everyone, my mom has lived in an apartment building in NorthWest DC for almost a decade now. Over the last two years several new people have moved into the building into new rent controlled units that the city decided the apartment complex must have. Recently two families have started having violent confrontations in the lobby together. My mom was walking into the lobby earlier this week when a fight broke out culminating in a woman beaten with a “Please sign in” metal sign and a knife being pulled. My mom was terrified and ran but now I worry that next time it could be a gun. My question is, does she have any legal recourse on recovering her security deposit and moving out given as how this is only the most recent incident in a series of violent incidents? Also there is no security guard only a front desk concierge.

Tldr; mom lives in building with new violent tenants can she get her security deposit back and move?

The above was posted on Reddit. Comments asked if this was The Brandywine.

The police report for the incident that is the subject of the thread stated that 2 females, known to one another, got into a fight and stabbed one another in the back. (Literally.) Both refused transport to the hospital. So, could, in fact, have been The Brandywine his mom lives in. Plenty of other options in Connecticut and Wisconsin corridors but there is a lot of violence INSIDE The Brandywine. Used to be so many Murch families.

I think if people with vouchers commit crimes or behave violently, they should lose the voucher and the apartment. if they have a mental illness they should be moved to places that can help them (group homes with staff onside to help with medications or mental hospitals where they cannot go out for people who are violent and a threat to themselves or others). if not, they should be kicked out of the apartment period. even assuming that housing is a right (and it's a big if), living at the taxpayer expense with 150% the already high rent in the best part of town is definitely not a right. I am sure there are plenty of lower income families that would love some help to live in the apartments on Wisconsin or CT and send their kids to local schools and that stab each other in the lobby when they have a disagreement, throw the girlfriend out of the 8th floor window or shoot around at 3pm on Saturday near a play ground. I came to DC in 2001 and rented for 10 yrs apartments on CT, first as a couple and then as a couple with two kids, lived in two different buildings and it was great.

i meant "and that DO NOT stab each other in the lobby...."

[Anonymous]

When the vouchers moved in the staff in the apartments changed. You always had a few street people working in the building, but it turned to 100% when the landlord started accepting vouchers.

[Anonymous]

A social worker or other services won't make a difference in their behavior. They aren't living under their supervision. The DC government, including their social workers behave and talk just like the voucher tenants.

They need to re-house them in a special community of high rises with police, mental health doctors, and drug counselors. This way they are contained in their own community away from the public.

[Anonymous]

More detail here re: the armed street robbery in Woodley Park last evening where the cooperating victim was pistol whipped. Wasn't even that late.

[twitter][/twitter]https://twitter.com/alanhenney/status/1719420794034405562[twitter]

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A social worker or other services won't make a difference in their behavior. They aren't living under their supervision. The DC government, including their social workers behave and talk just like the voucher tenants.

They need to re-house them in a special community of high rises with police, mental health doctors, and drug counselors. This way they are contained in their own community away from the public.

HUD only requires 2 contacts a month from a social worker, 1 in person. The voucher tenant has no obligation to even open the door.

There are a lot of details in this piece, the Post has written a lot on this issue. Start with the series on Sedgewick Garden from 2019. There are all sorts of ideas that would be an improvement but that are contravened by HUD. Some are policies or approaches the city could change.

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

Over time the buildings become overpriced private public housing but without the rules, guards and social workers who have some control.