Has Au/tenley town gotten seedier? Lots of homeless and random people

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Anonymous wrote:How about the man sleeping at Turtle Park? Charging his phone, also visibly touching himself. The police explain that he’s the child of an older couple who live in the neighborhood who has been kicked out of their home. Also apparently ok.

Make him feel “welcome” here in Ward 3. There’s more like him arriving soon with the cold weather.

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There was a woman who would infrequently be passed out on the street with her pants down by the Tenleytown metro, though I haven't seen her in a few months. The same thing - she would be there exposed in the middle of the day when kids got out of school, and nothing would be done. It's also a testament to how far the area has fallen that no one even acted as if it was something out of the ordinary.

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Anonymous wrote:There was a woman who would infrequently be passed out on the street with her pants down by the Tenleytown metro, though I haven't seen her in a few months. The same thing - she would be there exposed in the middle of the day when kids got out of school, and nothing would be done. It's also a testament to how far the area has fallen that no one even acted as if it was something out of the ordinary.

how is this not a crime or mental illness demanding proactive treatment? sympathetic ultra liberals have literally normalized stepping over naked bodies in the street because "that's kind"

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The sleeping bag flasher at the bank isn't there--but where did they move him to? If they just moved him to a park or bus stop I'd like to know so I can prepare myself mentally.

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What’s with the homeless tent city that has grown along Rock Creek Parkway near K St.? The area is now covered in litter and graffiti.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s with the homeless tent city that has grown along Rock Creek Parkway near K St.? The area is now covered in litter and graffiti.

Just drove by this. Found myself hoping for Trump to win for the first time so his National Park services appointees clear this out.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't been before COVID. But today we walked around and noticed a lot of randos loitering and hanging out at the chick fila and Panera, both inside and out. Also lots of homeless people loitering around. Felt seedier than before. Have things gone down hill? Is this the new norm?

So when you were walking around, were you not also a rando loitering and hanging out? How were the rest of us to know the difference between you (proper, not loitering) and the randos (seedy, loitering)?

By the way they are dressed, hygiene and the way they are acting and they aren't eating food just hanging out. They don't look like college students, seedy is a good word.

What do college students look like?

I would also like to know what college students look like.

These incredibly self righteous, holier than thou PPs who have lost all common sense -- that is why this situation is being tolerated. Most places are getting seedier. It's just not ok to talk about it or be bothered. Even on anonymous forum.

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It’s good that AU Park is getting to experience some of this. We’ve been getting hammered with homeless and mentally ill on Connecticut Ave. Frumins neighbors to share the burden.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s with the homeless tent city that has grown along Rock Creek Parkway near K St.? The area is now covered in litter and graffiti.

Just drove by this. Found myself hoping for Trump to win for the first time so his National Park services appointees clear this out.

The Secretary of Interior is so focused on her performative indigenous posturing that she has lost sight of protecting the national perks, the Nation’s Crown Jewels and her department’s foremost mission.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s good that AU Park is getting to experience some of this. We’ve been getting hammered with homeless and mentally ill on Connecticut Ave. Frumins neighbors to share the burden.

Will Frumin at least deliver pickle ball?

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Anonymous wrote:When Friendship Place moved in they brought the homeless from other neighborhoods to loiter around while they padded their lifestyle of bad behavior. They solicited the churches to give them money so they can encourage these people to live lawless and be dependent on the 3rd ward neighborhood for handouts. They want the neighborhood to feel like they are obligated to fund them and somehow owe these people who belong in a halfwayhouse.

The churches are under the impression they are helping the disabled who live in the neighborhood to prevent homelessness.

Oh, ridiculous. Friendship Place has been there for many years with no troubles from them at all.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s with the homeless tent city that has grown along Rock Creek Parkway near K St.? The area is now covered in litter and graffiti.

Just drove by this. Found myself hoping for Trump to win for the first time so his National Park services appointees clear this out.

The Secretary of Interior is so focused on her performative indigenous posturing that she has lost sight of protecting the national perks, the Nation’s Crown Jewels and her department’s foremost mission.

Maybe, but I think the real reason is that liberals for whatever reason right now just don’t really care if homeless live on the streets.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s with the homeless tent city that has grown along Rock Creek Parkway near K St.? The area is now covered in litter and graffiti.

Just drove by this. Found myself hoping for Trump to win for the first time so his National Park services appointees clear this out.

It shameful when people visit our nation's capital that it looks like this.

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Anonymous wrote:And yet it’s Ward 6 schools who are actually at the bottom of the funding list. How about explaining why that would be the case???

Where are you getting your numbers from? I'm seeing CHEC and Wilson/JR as the lowest funded high schools:

https://dcpsbudget.ourdcschools.org/

If you look at elementary, Ward 6 is getting more, with 1/3 of the schools in Ward 6 having higher funding than the highest funded school in Ward 3.

That's because school funding discrepancies are usually explained by funding for having at-risk kids in your school population. As a parent with kids at two different Ward 3 schools, I have absolutely no equity-based grounds on which to complain about D.C.'s school funding practices. Whatever needs the the schools up here think we have that the city isn't meeting, the community has no problem whatsoever paying for it, and I'm certainly not going to start advocating for taking money from schools elsewhere in D.C. and sending it to my neighborhood.

That's fine, but it's just inaccurate to say Ward 3 gets the most $ per student. This is such a common trope in these discussions. That's what PP is pointing out.

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Anonymous wrote:When Friendship Place moved in they brought the homeless from other neighborhoods to loiter around while they padded their lifestyle of bad behavior. They solicited the churches to give them money so they can encourage these people to live lawless and be dependent on the 3rd ward neighborhood for handouts. They want the neighborhood to feel like they are obligated to fund them and somehow owe these people who belong in a halfwayhouse.

The churches are under the impression they are helping the disabled who live in the neighborhood to prevent homelessness.

Oh, ridiculous. Friendship Place has been there for many years with no troubles from them at all.

I'm not a fan of friendship place. They could address community concerns too (like poop everywhere). They are barely open and mum on everything.Not sure what they do.