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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It got worse after Fannie Mae left the neighborhood.

Which coincided generally with COVID, which likely had a bigger impact.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was worse in the 90s.

No, it wasn’t. Not in the very specific area we’re discussing

— PP resident who moved here in early 90s.

[Anonymous]

CALL the police

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CALL the police

Hello Police? Yes there are RANDOM PEOPLE in Tenleytown!

[Anonymous]

30 year resident. Definitely worse. We didn’t use to have homeless. And then when we did they were mostly just drinking or selling Street Sense or hanging out mostly peacefully. Now it’s homeless folks really strung out on fentanyl/meth, acting in more threatening, aggressive, and potentially dangerous ways. Plus the high school dropouts looking to engage in crime and happy to start street fights, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the combination of

increased census at Psychiatric Institute of Washington. Mentally ill + indigent patients attract family members who, sometimesNOTalways, are also low-functioning

an increase in the fentanyl-methy mush brained paranoid guys that NPS allows to live in the little triangle pocket parks, screaming and writing furiously about End Times. NPS also looks the other way when these guys set up tents in the bushes adjacent to Deal/JR

sorta Friendship Place (but not really, because their constituency tends to arrive purposefully for meals then leave / they don't loiter)

THREE count 'em THREE "vape" shops on Wisconsin that definitely, for sure only sell paraphernalia. The young males lurking in the overgrown weedy trees 1 block away on Belt Rd. are most definitely not getting high. Nor are they waiting for a connect.

Hundreds of newish neighbors brought to the Wisconsin and Connecticut corridors with Sec. 8 vouchers. They are visited by their friends sometimes.

And before the inevitable race card gets played, two of the cohorts I've described are predominantly white. Another one is super diverse _looking_, and one is majority black.

-- long-time resident who just loves the new Vibrancy.

Did you vote for it and not expect it to come to your neighborhood?

+1
Your choices on election day have brought this home for you.

[Anonymous]

It's unfortunate as it will impact au students to pick a an alternative school with a better neighbors. It's like no one cares

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the combination of

increased census at Psychiatric Institute of Washington. Mentally ill + indigent patients attract family members who, sometimesNOTalways, are also low-functioning

an increase in the fentanyl-methy mush brained paranoid guys that NPS allows to live in the little triangle pocket parks, screaming and writing furiously about End Times. NPS also looks the other way when these guys set up tents in the bushes adjacent to Deal/JR

sorta Friendship Place (but not really, because their constituency tends to arrive purposefully for meals then leave / they don't loiter)

THREE count 'em THREE "vape" shops on Wisconsin that definitely, for sure only sell paraphernalia. The young males lurking in the overgrown weedy trees 1 block away on Belt Rd. are most definitely not getting high. Nor are they waiting for a connect.

Hundreds of newish neighbors brought to the Wisconsin and Connecticut corridors with Sec. 8 vouchers. They are visited by their friends sometimes.

And before the inevitable race card gets played, two of the cohorts I've described are predominantly white. Another one is super diverse _looking_, and one is majority black.

-- long-time resident who just loves the new Vibrancy.

Did you vote for it and not expect it to come to your neighborhood?

+1
Your choices on election day have brought this home for you.

No, this is not because of democratic policy. The data clearly show parallel increases in crime in rural districts and red states with red legislatures and red prosecutors. Meanwhile in Dallas texas the Democratic mayor is seeing improving crime rates even with liberal policies. Your partisan finger pointing will only lead to more crime.

[Anonymous]

"NPS also looks the other way when these guys set up tents in the bushes adjacent to Deal/JR"

This isn't true. Call it in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the combination of

increased census at Psychiatric Institute of Washington. Mentally ill + indigent patients attract family members who, sometimesNOTalways, are also low-functioning

an increase in the fentanyl-methy mush brained paranoid guys that NPS allows to live in the little triangle pocket parks, screaming and writing furiously about End Times. NPS also looks the other way when these guys set up tents in the bushes adjacent to Deal/JR

sorta Friendship Place (but not really, because their constituency tends to arrive purposefully for meals then leave / they don't loiter)

THREE count 'em THREE "vape" shops on Wisconsin that definitely, for sure only sell paraphernalia. The young males lurking in the overgrown weedy trees 1 block away on Belt Rd. are most definitely not getting high. Nor are they waiting for a connect.

Hundreds of newish neighbors brought to the Wisconsin and Connecticut corridors with Sec. 8 vouchers. They are visited by their friends sometimes.

And before the inevitable race card gets played, two of the cohorts I've described are predominantly white. Another one is super diverse _looking_, and one is majority black.

-- long-time resident who just loves the new Vibrancy.

Lol... "what I am saying isn't racist because I say so" is such a great excuse!

Try harder. I'm unapologetically classist. I wish these groups of people would go somewhere else and that my neighborhood would revert to the way it was about 6 years ago. I DGAF how much melanin these guys have, or don't have -- I dislike their behaviors.

+100

Also noticed that the booeymonger all the way up by the old mazza is now a convenience and liquor store…with armed guards. It’s just gonna keep sprawling.

Really? That makes me sad. Spend so many post high school afternoons there.

It's just the old porch area that has turned into a convenience/liquor store. The Booeymonger is still there. Source: I went there last night for a "The Manhattan".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It got worse after Fannie Mae left the neighborhood.

Which coincided generally with COVID, which likely had a bigger impact.

They left in 2018 I thought

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:CM Frumin has a plan to make Ward 3 more “welcoming” to these folks, so it’s only going to get worse. Enjoy.

Him getting elected was a bit of a headscratcher. The Ward 3 highschool has 1/3 out of boundary students, which overcrowds it to the extent that parents of in-boundary students who want to send their kids their are instead opting to pay for expensive private schools. But Frumin says his main focus is - making sure Ward 3 is doing more for people living in other wards? I see Councilmembers from other wards sticking up and trying to get more for their wards, while the Ward 3 Councilmember is trying his best to take more from it.

Not to mention his habit of completely blowing off constituents who write to him.

I mean, I know D.C. elections across the city are almost entirely decided by personality rather than policy, but I thought there’d still be some limits. Not sure why Ward 3 voters weren’t interested in having an advocate for the ward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CM Frumin has a plan to make Ward 3 more “welcoming” to these folks, so it’s only going to get worse. Enjoy.

Him getting elected was a bit of a headscratcher. The Ward 3 highschool has 1/3 out of boundary students, which overcrowds it to the extent that parents of in-boundary students who want to send their kids their are instead opting to pay for expensive private schools. But Frumin says his main focus is - making sure Ward 3 is doing more for people living in other wards? I see Councilmembers from other wards sticking up and trying to get more for their wards, while the Ward 3 Councilmember is trying his best to take more from it.

Not to mention his habit of completely blowing off constituents who write to him.

I mean, I know D.C. elections across the city are almost entirely decided by personality rather than policy, but I thought there’d still be some limits. Not sure why Ward 3 voters weren’t interested in having an advocate for the ward.

Some people on DCUM have real difficulty understanding the perspectives of people who have different perspectives from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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?

I just went for a walk around Fort Reno, which included going down Wisconsin by that very area. The most sketchy thing was the continued presence of the shut down metro escalators and the vacant starbucks storefront. No one accosted me, no one bothered me, at no time did I feel anything beyond it's a heck of a nice night for late June right next to the summer solstice.

As an aside, still surprised that the Starbucks closed down and that nothing has replaced it. Has anyone heard anything - anything in the works?

[Anonymous]

DC in general has turned into a dump. The willfully blind are so because they do not want to admit that Democratic policies and politicians made this mess.