DC clears homeless near K Street

[Anonymous]

Look at all the trash I’m the encampment near E street.

Just read the articles on San Fran. Feces in the streets, used drug needles everywhere in the city, traffic signals collapsing due to people urinating on them.

Oracle pulled out their conference out of San Fran and one of the issues was the street conditions. The streets smell, trash and drugs everywhere. This is the path DC will take if not corrected..

[Anonymous]

Please read this NPR post.

https://www.npr.org/2018/08/01/634626538/san-francisco-squalor-city-streets-strewn-with-trash-needles-and-human-feces

This is what happens when homeless encampments are not cleaned. Problem gets bigger...

[Anonymous]

I don’t care about them moving the encampments but they need to get a comprehensive strategy together. It’s a rich city - figure it out.

For the most part though I understand that the people in encampments and along ny ave are very, very hard cases to deal with.

[Anonymous]

We need to build SROs that can house people longer-term, and that are also combined with targeted social services. That won't completely solve the problem, but I think it's the #1 thing we can do to make a dent.

[Anonymous]

Arlington is open to the homeless! Come on in.

[Anonymous]

The city need some to have a sanitation crew(s) with police escorts that remove any and all homeless crap on any sidewalk, bus stop, underpass daily.

If they see it, tell the person they haven 5 minutes to get moving then all the crap into the dumpster. Rinse and repeat. Word needs to get out that bums once doorways a on the streets aren’t allowed anymore.

Same for surrounding areas. I so with montgomery and other areas would round up the damn street corner bums.

It’s not a popular opinion but hey if the street bums were bussed in the middle of the night and left in some town in the middle of no place would be just fine.

[Anonymous]

You have one encampment here. One there, and as time goes on it ends up Like this.......https://s.hdnux.com/photos/01/05/45/04/18239787/7/gallery_medium.jpg


At what point do you stop these? Isn’t sooner better than later.

[Anonymous]

Too many people. Just in general there are too many of us. The planet needs a pandemic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The city need some to have a sanitation crew(s) with police escorts that remove any and all homeless crap on any sidewalk, bus stop, underpass daily.

If they see it, tell the person they haven 5 minutes to get moving then all the crap into the dumpster. Rinse and repeat. Word needs to get out that bums once doorways a on the streets aren’t allowed anymore.

Same for surrounding areas. I so with montgomery and other areas would round up the damn street corner bums.

It’s not a popular opinion but hey if the street bums were bussed in the middle of the night and left in some town in the middle of no place would be just fine.

Damn. Why not just take them on a bus and have the bus drive off a cliff with all the homeless in it, while you’re at it.

We should be helping these people, or tearing them down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Don't live in the area, huh, OP?

You're a really insensitive person. I lived in the District for 10 years before moving to the suburbs. It's very sad to see people get displaced without a good alternative.

Did you even read the article you quoted, you nitwit?

Of course I did. Where does it say anything that conflicts with what I wrote? There is NO good alternative. The shelters they cited are often not safe.

Exactly - shelters are where unaccompanied women are often sexually assaulted, and both men and women are subject to bed bugs and constant theft to where they can't even sleep for fear of losing the little belongings they have.

Oftentimes, they show up to a shelter at 6am waiting for 5pm because if they are full, they are turned away. Do you think if the majority of homeless people actually had a safe warm place to stay that they would choose to? There are only a minority that due to drugs and mental illness choose to not have a home. You're a moron.

So your solution is to . . . what? Let them stay under the overpass?

No. My solution would be to actually put things in place that make sense for the homeless - 360 services to include mental health support and providing a safe haven support home. But you'll drone on about costs but never stop to consider how much it costs to arrest homeless, enforcement no tenting, clean up crews, etc. - but never actually concede that people CHOOSE what the government (city/state/federal) are supporting. All that lotto money? Could go to homeless services. Those parking fees? Could go to homeless services. Those property taxes? Could go to homeless services. This country picks and chooses what to do with incoming funds - just like you do at your own house - and MY solution would be to choose differently.

The federal government via the DEA take MILLIONS of dollars through forfeiture laws - many unjustified and pour that money back into their own coffers - or other law enforcement organizations. How much you wanna bet that if that money was tagged for homeless that the forfeitures would go down??!

There are viable solutions - we just simply choose to turn our heads and hope that homeless people and the mentally ill die or disappear.

Actually, I agree with all of that. Every word.

But those are *not* solutions to the immediate issue. They are long term solutions that *should* be put in place immediately. Even if the DC Council passed the laws implementing them immediately, it would do nothing in the short term to alleviate the issues caused by this encampment. And whether you care to admit it or not, those issues were significant, and were affecting the entire neighborhood.

So, I repeat the question you evaded the last time? What is your solution? Not your long-term solution to end homelessness, but your immediate solution re this encampment? Let them stay in place until your proposed reforms get uyp and running, and take effect?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we just build mansions for the homeless? Every homeless person deserves a mansion near the White House. They have such a hard life. Let's tax Bezos and all the corporations that are racist and mean. My heart hurts for these poor people. They need mansions.

That's not exactly far off the mark of current thinking. People want to provide these people with free housing. Of course, who pays taxes on this housing? The government will need to do it because these people are generally unemployed or living on limited benefits. Who handles upkeep of the property? Again, the government will need to do this because it's unlikely these people will elect to spend resources on a property they don't own even if they knew what was necessary. So public housing winds up being an institution similar to a mental health facility because these people can't leave and live on the streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of these "homeless" people are so mentally ill that they are truly unable to adequately care for themselves. In the not-so-distant past, society had a means of taking care of these people: mental institutions where these mentally ill people got food, medical care, and proper housing. Then all of a sudden, the liberals shut down these government-run institutions, and put these crazy people out on the streets....where they do drugs, create filthy "encampments", defecate on the sidewalks, and freeze to death in the winter.

So let's re-open (or build new) mental hospitals where these sad unfortunate people can be taken care of....whether they like it or not.

It's for their own good. And for ours too.

There's an excellent video on the subject. It's an hour long, and it's called "Seattle Is Dying". It's on YouTube.

+1. I worked in a mental institution for a few months. It actually wasn’t too bad, even on the locked ward. It was clean, the patients were getting their meds, and they had a reasonable amount of space to roam around. Liberals screwed up by shutting them down. Now homeless people are everywhere. I hate going to DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The city need some to have a sanitation crew(s) with police escorts that remove any and all homeless crap on any sidewalk, bus stop, underpass daily.

If they see it, tell the person they haven 5 minutes to get moving then all the crap into the dumpster. Rinse and repeat. Word needs to get out that bums once doorways a on the streets aren’t allowed anymore.

Same for surrounding areas. I so with montgomery and other areas would round up the damn street corner bums.

It’s not a popular opinion but hey if the street bums were bussed in the middle of the night and left in some town in the middle of no place would be just fine.

Damn. Why not just take them on a bus and have the bus drive off a cliff with all the homeless in it, while you’re at it.

We should be helping these people, or tearing them down.

Why not use Obama’s 15 mil mansion and house some there? Build some smaller homes on the large property. He doesn’t need all that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The city need some to have a sanitation crew(s) with police escorts that remove any and all homeless crap on any sidewalk, bus stop, underpass daily.

If they see it, tell the person they haven 5 minutes to get moving then all the crap into the dumpster. Rinse and repeat. Word needs to get out that bums once doorways a on the streets aren’t allowed anymore.

Same for surrounding areas. I so with montgomery and other areas would round up the damn street corner bums.

It’s not a popular opinion but hey if the street bums were bussed in the middle of the night and left in some town in the middle of no place would be just fine.

Damn. Why not just take them on a bus and have the bus drive off a cliff with all the homeless in it, while you’re at it.

We should be helping these people, or tearing them down.

Why not use Obama’s 15 mil mansion and house some there? Build some smaller homes on the large property. He doesn’t need all that.

The rich SAY they want to help. But they don’t when they COULD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Too many people. Just in general there are too many of us. The planet needs a pandemic.

That's what Hillary had planned if she had won. But she didn't thank GOD.

Wanting people to die because they are sick and homeless is not what any good decent person would say.

We need to love take care of each other.