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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair most of DC smells like urine and has a homeless problem outside of Ward3. There is just less places for them to go inside in spots like Cap Hill

Let’s bus the homeless to the bucolic circles of ward 3

This is annoying. Ward 3 has many homeless and homeless services, which frankly I think in some ways make it easy for homeless persons to stay on streets and NOT go to shelters or more permanent help. Ward 3ers are mostly guilt ridden liberals who dole out money food and care bags like it's a birthday everyday . Enabling behavior. They should stop, give directly to charities, and call for hospitalization and rehab efforts

[Anonymous]

And the homeless LOVE to steal from the churches and ward 3 residents. They believe it's warrented. Society owes them and it's theirs for the taking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair most of DC smells like urine and has a homeless problem outside of Ward3. There is just less places for them to go inside in spots like Cap Hill

Let’s bus the homeless to the bucolic circles of ward 3

They are already there in huge numbers, all over. Sleeping in front of tenleytown library, udc. They pack the library and churches for their racial reckoning programs, they're inside chevy chase library, around wilson...[/quote

In the W3 apartment buildings, too, straight from Union Station in some cases

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/northwest-dc-residents-criticize-oversight-of-homeless-voucher-programs/2019/02/22/987b473e-36d6-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-housed-the-homeless-in-upscale-apartments-it-hasnt-gone-as-planned/2019/04/16/60c8ab9c-5648-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/the-brandywine-apartments-like-sedgwick-gardens-is-seeing-an-influx-of-voucher-holders/

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/mpd-referred-three-van-ness-apartment-buildings-to-dc-ags-nuisance-property-office/

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/residents-of-a-van-ness-nuisance-building-say-management-is-ignoring-structural-as-well-as-security-problems/

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The DC government is brainwashing the die hard liberals of ward 3 that they are responsible for the others troubles, "racial reckoning" is just a marketing campaign designed for ward 3 to feel guilty and empty their bank accounts into enabling efforts. They will never learn how to support themselves and the mental illness, drug abuse, criminal behavior and generational poverty will continue because they can just get a handout from the white man in ward 3.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a homelessness crisis in our nation, but nobody wants to do anything about it. Instead, everywhere you look a new luxury condo/apartment complex is being built. Our country is pathetic.

There are overwhelming amounts of money spent on the homeless population. Money isn’t the issue.

+1. In fact, homeless people from all over the country are streaming to DC because of our generous handouts and permissive stance on open-air drug use and public defecation. It's basically a free for all!

Would you please cite your source for this statement? I googled it and am coming up blank.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The DC government is brainwashing the die hard liberals of ward 3 that they are responsible for the others troubles, "racial reckoning" is just a marketing campaign designed for ward 3 to feel guilty and empty their bank accounts into enabling efforts. They will never learn how to support themselves and the mental illness, drug abuse, criminal behavior and generational poverty will continue because they can just get a handout from the white man in ward 3.

We should bus the homeless to Arlington, I keep hearing it’s has left DC in the dust so they will be better able to take care of them. I hear N Arlington is lovely in the spring

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And the homeless LOVE to steal from the churches and ward 3 residents. They believe it's warrented. Society owes them and it's theirs for the taking.

I won't lie. I'm not terribly impressed by Ward 3 homeless outreach orgs. They do outreach I guess to the neighborhood homeless, but have seen the same lady parked in a bush for a decade in a small park nearby, so surely they have as well. I'd love to see some stats on how many people they make contact with each month and how many they move to actual treatment, housing, shelters, services or hospitalization? She's been sitting there a long time the rain and sun!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is a homelessness crisis in our nation, but nobody wants to do anything about it. Instead, everywhere you look a new luxury condo/apartment complex is being built. Our country is pathetic.

There are overwhelming amounts of money spent on the homeless population. Money isn’t the issue.

+1. In fact, homeless people from all over the country are streaming to DC because of our generous handouts and permissive stance on open-air drug use and public defecation. It's basically a free for all!

Would you please cite your source for this statement? I googled it and am coming up blank.

Ultimately I think DC needs to fix its shelter situation and have safe, managed, hygienic, supervised facilities where the homeless can stay, (and not be kicked out during the day) rather than being allowed to sleep on the streets. Don't even give them the option to camp. And, give them psychiatric screening, drug rehab and treatment, etc, and put any who are capable of working on a path to employment and self-sufficiency. But no camping on the streets, under bridges, etc. If they don't like it, they can "stream" themselves elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Most of these people are honestly not fixable. We need to focus our efforts on preventing the next generation of mentally ill/addicted homeless people.

Take the existing homeless people to a camp out in South Dakota. Wall it off. They're ruining our nation's cities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of these people are honestly not fixable. We need to focus our efforts on preventing the next generation of mentally ill/addicted homeless people.

Take the existing homeless people to a camp out in South Dakota. Wall it off. They're ruining our nation's cities.

They should be rounded up and put in camps. Maybe get the trumpkins and gun nuts while we are at it.

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Anonymous wrote:The NYC mayor has this billiant solution to homeless on the subway. At the end of the line the police will force them off the train. He doesn't underdtand that isnt a deterrent. They will just exit/cross over the platform and get on the train going in the opposite direction.

I think the point is that they don’t want to ask police to make judgments, so they have designed a neutral penalty to disincentivize falling asleep on the train. If the un-housed want to stay up all night playing a cat and mouse game on the trains, then I guess so be it.

The homeless will just stay in a warm underground station on the benches or along the tunnels in between the end of the line check points where there are no police. They won't police every station 24/7. They will also just get off and switch directions just before the checkpoints to avoid detection. The homeless will be a little more inconvenienced, but they won't be stopped. The laws remain the same, so they can't institutionalize them, the prosecutor won't charge them if they are black or brown.
There might be a slight improvement, that's all. I really only believe Adams is doing this because he is being pressured. If nobody spoke out, he would have no problem ignoring the obvious and letting innocent New Yorks get murdered and injured.

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Not off to the best start

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10536363/Homeless-sleep-subway-day-Adamss-subway-safety-plan.html

WMATA is really getting dangerous, this is with very low ridership. https://twitter.com/unsuckdcmetro/status/1496284198373629957

Tonight there was a tunnel fire on the red line. 10 min went by before emergency services were contacted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And it’s policed by 3 different agencies: DCMPD, Metro Transit Police and Amtrak Police. Not sure what they actually do all day….

metro Transit polices the subway only. They have no jurisdiction over US proper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I took a train from Union Station yesterday. First time in a while. I was stunned at the homeless encampment in the circle out front. Stunned. WTH?? Why is the city letting an essential traveler/tourist site turn into homeless village in plain site?

I’m curious. I always thought US was federal land. When Ashcroft was US Attorney General, he required or demanded that the statutes removed and redone with covering shields. He was offended by their nudity. If he had the authority to revive and replace artifacts like that, it would seems yhst is federal property and not DC or private property. Maybe you are blaming the wrong overseer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of these people are honestly not fixable. We need to focus our efforts on preventing the next generation of mentally ill/addicted homeless people.

Take the existing homeless people to a camp out in South Dakota. Wall it off. They're ruining our nation's cities.

They should be rounded up and put in camps. Maybe get the trumpkins and gun nuts while we are at it.

Round them up how?

They have guns.