Mary Cheh's new suggested locations for the homeless shelter

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the council is going to overhaul Bowser's attempts to put shelters in completely inappropriate places: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-poised-to-overhaul-mayors-costly-homeless-shelter-plan/2016/05/16/119732b2-1b7e-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_dc-homeless-430pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Great.

Bowser is coming across as completely amateurish, or completely corrupt. Let's see what brilliant "plan" she delivers next.

[Anonymous]

Meanwhile the Mayor is moving forward with plans to relocate the DC Jail to Blue Plains so she can open up the remainder of Reservation 13 to development.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like the council is going to overhaul Bowser's attempts to put shelters in completely inappropriate places: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-council-poised-to-overhaul-mayors-costly-homeless-shelter-plan/2016/05/16/119732b2-1b7e-11e6-9c81-4be1c14fb8c8_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_dc-homeless-430pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

Is it a coincidence that some council members want to build the Ward 3 shelter in the parking lot of the 2nd District police station?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile the Mayor is moving forward with plans to relocate the DC Jail to Blue Plains so she can open up the remainder of Reservation 13 to development.

Didn't she already give away one piece of prime Reservation 13 real estate to developers for $10?

$10? Seriously? What did the city get in return? Or should I be asking what did Muriel get in return?

Council needs to be looking very very closely at this.

I want to see a detailed accounting and justification of why the city isn't getting fair market value.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile the Mayor is moving forward with plans to relocate the DC Jail to Blue Plains so she can open up the remainder of Reservation 13 to development.

Didn't she already give away one piece of prime Reservation 13 real estate to developers for $10?

$10? Seriously? What did the city get in return? Or should I be asking what did Muriel get in return?

Council needs to be looking very very closely at this.

I want to see a detailed accounting and justification of why the city isn't getting fair market value.

Link?

[Anonymous]

DC Council voted today to close DC General.

[Anonymous]

Bowser called Mendelson a "f*cking liar" after he voted to revise her proposal in favor of building new homes on city-owned land. Beautiful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile the Mayor is moving forward with plans to relocate the DC Jail to Blue Plains so she can open up the remainder of Reservation 13 to development.

Didn't she already give away one piece of prime Reservation 13 real estate to developers for $10?

$10? Seriously? What did the city get in return? Or should I be asking what did Muriel get in return?

Council needs to be looking very very closely at this.

I want to see a detailed accounting and justification of why the city isn't getting fair market value.

Link?

Here's one article: http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/breaking_ground/2016/01/donatelli-submits-metro-adjacent-hill-east-plans.html

$10 - "there's a steep discount to offset the number of affordable housing units" - um, every other developer is also being mandated to provide 30% affordable housing units and I don't think anyone else has ever gotten that kind of "discount" for providing affordable housing.

[Anonymous]

Appraised value of the land $2.85 million. Given away for $10. Yep.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Appraised value of the land $2.85 million. Given away for $10. Yep.

Talk to Vince Grey and the councilmembers who voted to approve the deal.

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/breaking_ground/2014/12/heres-the-deal-with-donatellis-hill-east.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Appraised value of the land $2.85 million. Given away for $10. Yep.

Talk to Vince Grey and the councilmembers who voted to approve the deal.

http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/breaking_ground/2014/12/heres-the-deal-with-donatellis-hill-east.html

Apparently only one developer submitted a bid for the site, so considering the requirements (30% affordable housing, mostly empty neighborhood), maybe $10 was a fair price.

[Anonymous]

Or keep dc general site , land the city owns, rebuild the shelter in a nicer way and atop this still wasteful nonsense. This isn't play money..it's my money. The DC tax office hasn't figured out how to give me my tax return but they are finding realm imaginative ways to spend my money. Is there research to support that homeless fare better in community shelters on crazy expensive real estate? What's the long term plan? Where exactly.do they transition to? Loft apartments over the Potomac? I have been on Medicaid and I have nothing against the working poor, but this whole plan stinks of waste, cronyism and short term planning.