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

[Anonymous]

Who says the CM is “low energy”? He‘s a prominent pickle ball promoter.

[Anonymous]

I still don’t know why Ward 3 voters elected someone who go actively works against your interests.

[Anonymous]

We have to hope the Feds step in. The political class in DC is beyond pathetic. They will do nothing to stop the rising crime tide.

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Anonymous wrote:We have to hope the Feds step in. The political class in DC is beyond pathetic. They will do nothing to stop the rising crime tide.

We don't needs the feds. They can't even pass a budget.

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Anonymous wrote:We have to hope the Feds step in. The political class in DC is beyond pathetic. They will do nothing to stop the rising crime tide.

We don't needs the feds. They can't even pass a budget.

Enjoy getting carjacked.

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs. Well, now you’re really a part of us. Welcome!

It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly.

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"

Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?

I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers? We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.

According to the Comp Plan that I am sure that you supported, it meant:

“locating special needs housing more equitably so that all neighborhoods accept their fair share”

Where “special needs housing” includes group homes and housing for “homeless, troubled youth, elderly, foster children, ex-offenders”.

That’s the vibrant, mixed use urbanism that folks fought for and congratulations, you got it.
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/Vision%20for%20Inclusive%20CIty%202004.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs. Well, now you’re really a part of us. Welcome!

It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly.

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"

Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?

I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers? We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.

According to the Comp Plan that I am sure that you supported, it meant:

“locating special needs housing more equitably so that all neighborhoods accept their fair share”

Where “special needs housing” includes group homes and housing for “homeless, troubled youth, elderly, foster children, ex-offenders”.

That’s the vibrant, mixed use urbanism that folks fought for and congratulations, you got it.
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/Vision%20for%20Inclusive%20CIty%202004.pdf

Not CityRidge?

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs. Well, now you’re really a part of us. Welcome!

It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly.

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"

Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?

I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers? We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.

According to the Comp Plan that I am sure that you supported, it meant:

“locating special needs housing more equitably so that all neighborhoods accept their fair share”

Where “special needs housing” includes group homes and housing for “homeless, troubled youth, elderly, foster children, ex-offenders”.

That’s the vibrant, mixed use urbanism that folks fought for and congratulations, you got it.
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/Vision%20for%20Inclusive%20CIty%202004.pdf

Not CityRidge?

No, City Ridge came in under the plan to build ugly, dark caverns with chain retail. The only thing good about that development is they retained the Fannie Mae facade and lawn. The rest is dark and soulless.

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs. Well, now you’re really a part of us. Welcome!

It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly.

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"

Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?

I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers? We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.

According to the Comp Plan that I am sure that you supported, it meant:

“locating special needs housing more equitably so that all neighborhoods accept their fair share”

Where “special needs housing” includes group homes and housing for “homeless, troubled youth, elderly, foster children, ex-offenders”.

That’s the vibrant, mixed use urbanism that folks fought for and congratulations, you got it.
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/Vision%20for%20Inclusive%20CIty%202004.pdf

Not CityRidge?

No, City Ridge came in under the plan to build ugly, dark caverns with chain retail. The only thing good about that development is they retained the Fannie Mae facade and lawn. The rest is dark and soulless.

Couldn’t agree more. What a shitty complex of hideous design and why must all new construction in DC be so unappealing?

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs. Well, now you’re really a part of us. Welcome!

It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly.

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"

Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?

I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers? We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.

According to the Comp Plan that I am sure that you supported, it meant:

“locating special needs housing more equitably so that all neighborhoods accept their fair share”

Where “special needs housing” includes group homes and housing for “homeless, troubled youth, elderly, foster children, ex-offenders”.

That’s the vibrant, mixed use urbanism that folks fought for and congratulations, you got it.
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/Vision%20for%20Inclusive%20CIty%202004.pdf

Not CityRidge?

No, City Ridge came in under the plan to build ugly, dark caverns with chain retail. The only thing good about that development is they retained the Fannie Mae facade and lawn. The rest is dark and soulless.

Couldn’t agree more. What a shitty complex of hideous design and why must all new construction in DC be so unappealing?

Read DC’s new development guidelines for Wisconsin Ave. City Ridge and the big building next to it are DC’s vision for the avenue from Glover Pk to the Maryland line, only taller.

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs. Well, now you’re really a part of us. Welcome!

It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly.

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"

Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?

I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers? We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.

According to the Comp Plan that I am sure that you supported, it meant:

“locating special needs housing more equitably so that all neighborhoods accept their fair share”

Where “special needs housing” includes group homes and housing for “homeless, troubled youth, elderly, foster children, ex-offenders”.

That’s the vibrant, mixed use urbanism that folks fought for and congratulations, you got it.
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/Vision%20for%20Inclusive%20CIty%202004.pdf

Not CityRidge?

No, City Ridge came in under the plan to build ugly, dark caverns with chain retail. The only thing good about that development is they retained the Fannie Mae facade and lawn. The rest is dark and soulless.

Couldn’t agree more. What a shitty complex of hideous design and why must all new construction in DC be so unappealing?

Read DC’s new development guidelines for Wisconsin Ave. City Ridge and the big building next to it are DC’s vision for the avenue from Glover Pk to the Maryland line, only taller.

Meaning DC wants to build taller than that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs. Well, now you’re really a part of us. Welcome!

It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly.

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"

Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?

I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers? We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.

According to the Comp Plan that I am sure that you supported, it meant:

“locating special needs housing more equitably so that all neighborhoods accept their fair share”

Where “special needs housing” includes group homes and housing for “homeless, troubled youth, elderly, foster children, ex-offenders”.

That’s the vibrant, mixed use urbanism that folks fought for and congratulations, you got it.
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/Vision%20for%20Inclusive%20CIty%202004.pdf

W3 already had PIW, multiple shelters and multiple halfway houses.

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs. Well, now you’re really a part of us. Welcome!

It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly.

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"

Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?

I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers? We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.

According to the Comp Plan that I am sure that you supported, it meant:

“locating special needs housing more equitably so that all neighborhoods accept their fair share”

Where “special needs housing” includes group homes and housing for “homeless, troubled youth, elderly, foster children, ex-offenders”.

That’s the vibrant, mixed use urbanism that folks fought for and congratulations, you got it.
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/Vision%20for%20Inclusive%20CIty%202004.pdf

Not CityRidge?

No, City Ridge came in under the plan to build ugly, dark caverns with chain retail. The only thing good about that development is they retained the Fannie Mae facade and lawn. The rest is dark and soulless.

Couldn’t agree more. What a shitty complex of hideous design and why must all new construction in DC be so unappealing?

Read DC’s new development guidelines for Wisconsin Ave. City Ridge and the big building next to it are DC’s vision for the avenue from Glover Pk to the Maryland line, only taller.

Meaning DC wants to build taller than that.

If population declines, will there be demand? If not, will they fill the buildings with vagrants bused in from across the country? Most jurisdictions still provide the classic bus out of town so as to lower their own ongoing costs and make their homeless stats look better.

[Anonymous]

There are said to be a few condo buildings converting to rentals already due to changes in housing market.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs. Well, now you’re really a part of us. Welcome!

It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly.

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"

Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?

I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers? We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.

According to the Comp Plan that I am sure that you supported, it meant:

“locating special needs housing more equitably so that all neighborhoods accept their fair share”

Where “special needs housing” includes group homes and housing for “homeless, troubled youth, elderly, foster children, ex-offenders”.

That’s the vibrant, mixed use urbanism that folks fought for and congratulations, you got it.
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/Vision%20for%20Inclusive%20CIty%202004.pdf

W3 already had PIW, multiple shelters and multiple halfway houses.

Those don’t count for meeting the mayor’s ambitious, equitable and affordable housing goals.