Homeless tents creeping into the nice/residential part of DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If the city would just pass a law requiring people with unused bedrooms in their homes to house people experiencing homelessness, this whole problem would be solved overnight. You could do it with a lottery system. Addresses of people who qualified would be picked randomly, and those houses would accommodate one person off the street.

Those who didn’t comply would go to jail, and then their entire home could be used in their absence.


It’s such an obvious solution for a progressive society. It just takes the wherewithal on the part of our elected leaders to implement it.

You know what -- this is a great plot for a dystopian novel -- mind if I use it?

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Anonymous wrote:PP. if your brother lives in a blue state, it is highly likely that if your parents could not house him, he could be moved to a home for adults on the spectrum.

We strategically moved my sister to Arlington so that she could receive the many benefits available to people with mental disabilities. She can function but the county pays for a caregiver to help her with daily activities such as grocery shopping, cleaning and organizing, getting to medical appointments, and other activities.

How wonderful.

I am forever grateful to a co-worker who told me about Arlington's benefit. She impoverished both of her parents by buying their large house in Fairfax County well below market claiming that it had serious water and mold problems (which it did not). She got them into a senior citizen apartment in Pentagon City where they pay very little and Arlington picks up the tab for a caregiver. The parents were very wealthy immigrants but were able to shelter their money in their home country.

That's fraud, yo.

Not really. We did it with my parents and it has worked out well for them.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a.war.on women.so many of the victims of these mentally ill homeless are women. By comparison mentally ill homeless women don't seem to be perpetrating violent crimes, they seem to also be falling victim and should be gotten off the streets for their safety. This homeless debacle seems lto result in an utter war on women (though as we've seen men and toddlers fall victim to these deranged actions as well).

Women are easy targets in DC as they don't have an active police force to fall back on. These guys avoid any men who go into a defensive stance but these men no longer intervene to help women they don't know - too risky. Just the other day I watched a young woman walk to La Columbe in NoMa while pretending not to notice the homeless man following her two steps behind yelling sexual comments.

It's awful. A woman was attacked in the GW parking lot, the woman murdered on Christmas day in DC, the woman knifed in Logan Circle, the woman pushed in front of the train in NY, the woman killed in the furniture store in LA, the woman shot on the SF pier. All mentally ill intrasnigents. It's the stuff of nightmares.

Street harassment is not equivalent to violent crime.

Who said it is? Stop using racism to diminish women's voices.

The PPP just linked the two.

PP1: A woman was harassed walking to a coffee shop.

PP2: Women being violently attacked and murdered is awful.

There are plenty of reasons why the city needs to address the homeless problem, which is getting out of control. The fact that homeless people make you personally have uncomfortable is not one of them.

Uh no, homeless people do not have the right to harass and make other people uncomfortable.

Homeless people don’t have the right to litter and defecate in public. They don’t have the right to threaten people. They do have the right to be uncivil and make you uncomfortable. Sorry that you don’t seem to understand that.

Maybe you're part of the problem if you think exposing yourself or following a woman very closely down the whole block at night is merely "uncivil" behavior?

[Anonymous]

They moved these people into my building and they had a shoot out. Shot out two huge bullet holes on the ground floor, which could have killed an innocent tenant walking to the back entrance. Also shot through front door and bullet bounced off the hallway, could have killed someone in the hallway.

Another occasion, there was a police officer sitting outside the door of a neighbor overnight until the next morning when the crime scene unit arrived.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They moved these people into my building and they had a shoot out. Shot out two huge bullet holes on the ground floor, which could have killed an innocent tenant walking to the back entrance. Also shot through front door and bullet bounced off the hallway, could have killed someone in the hallway.

Another occasion, there was a police officer sitting outside the door of a neighbor overnight until the next morning when the crime scene unit arrived.

I heard of a knife altercation in the building next to the zoo.

Also heard of woman who was an intentional fire starter and started 3 fires in 3 different new buildings she was "placed" in.

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Anonymous wrote:It seems like a.war.on women.so many of the victims of these mentally ill homeless are women. By comparison mentally ill homeless women don't seem to be perpetrating violent crimes, they seem to also be falling victim and should be gotten off the streets for their safety. This homeless debacle seems lto result in an utter war on women (though as we've seen men and toddlers fall victim to these deranged actions as well).

Women are easy targets in DC as they don't have an active police force to fall back on. These guys avoid any men who go into a defensive stance but these men no longer intervene to help women they don't know - too risky. Just the other day I watched a young woman walk to La Columbe in NoMa while pretending not to notice the homeless man following her two steps behind yelling sexual comments.

It's awful. A woman was attacked in the GW parking lot, the woman murdered on Christmas day in DC, the woman knifed in Logan Circle, the woman pushed in front of the train in NY, the woman killed in the furniture store in LA, the woman shot on the SF pier. All mentally ill intrasnigents. It's the stuff of nightmares.

Street harassment is not equivalent to violent crime.

Who said it is? Stop using racism to diminish women's voices.

The PPP just linked the two.

PP1: A woman was harassed walking to a coffee shop.

PP2: Women being violently attacked and murdered is awful.

There are plenty of reasons why the city needs to address the homeless problem, which is getting out of control. The fact that homeless people make you personally have uncomfortable is not one of them.

Uh no, homeless people do not have the right to harass and make other people uncomfortable.

Homeless people don’t have the right to litter and defecate in public. They don’t have the right to threaten people. They do have the right to be uncivil and make you uncomfortable. Sorry that you don’t seem to understand that.

Maybe you're part of the problem if you think exposing yourself or following a woman very closely down the whole block at night is merely "uncivil" behavior?

Exposing oneself is criminal behavior. Following someone closely on the street could be criminal behavior in certain circumstances, however based on the information provided it likely was not.

How do you not understand the difference between legal and illegal? Just because you don’t like something does not make it illegal.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:They moved these people into my building and they had a shoot out. Shot out two huge bullet holes on the ground floor, which could have killed an innocent tenant walking to the back entrance. Also shot through front door and bullet bounced off the hallway, could have killed someone in the hallway.

Another occasion, there was a police officer sitting outside the door of a neighbor overnight until the next morning when the crime scene unit arrived.

I heard of a knife altercation in the building next to the zoo.

Also heard of woman who was an intentional fire starter and started 3 fires in 3 different new buildings she was "placed" in.

Who’s “they” exactly? Seems that you have now moved on from legal but uncivil behavior of homeless people to illegal behavior of people that are housed? Interesting that transition is seamless for you. What’s the common factor between the two for you?

[Anonymous]

The more money that goes to supporting the homeless, the worse the problem will get. All you have to do is follow the money. Certain cities are actively encouraging people to live on the streets and seem surprised that the problem continues to get worse.

We relocated to a city where homelessness isn’t accepted or encouraged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The more money that goes to supporting the homeless, the worse the problem will get. All you have to do is follow the money. Certain cities are actively encouraging people to live on the streets and seem surprised that the problem continues to get worse.

We relocated to a city where homelessness isn’t accepted or encouraged.

I agree. Homelessness shouldn’t be accepted or encouraged.

[Anonymous]

Mayor just cut the ribbon in a shiny new 350 bed men's shelter with day services. This in addition to all the new family shelters of the past few years Why are we allowing encampments? Could not believe my eyes passing downtown and the Watergate today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mayor just cut the ribbon in a shiny new 350 bed men's shelter with day services. This in addition to all the new family shelters of the past few years Why are we allowing encampments? Could not believe my eyes passing downtown and the Watergate today.

If you build it they will come. With its generous handouts DC has become a magnet for vagrants from all over the country. What's not to love?

[Anonymous]

Way too many wanna-be economists bloviating. Get out and meet real people. I have not met one person who actively wants to be living on the street.

[Anonymous]

So if the response to homeless people harassing / attacking someone is that we should more aggressively ban homelessness

Then what should we do when housed people harass / attack someone. Ban house dwelling??

Maybe just focus on the harassing / attacking part, not their housing problems.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So if the response to homeless people harassing / attacking someone is that we should more aggressively ban homelessness

Then what should we do when housed people harass / attack someone. Ban house dwelling??

Maybe just focus on the harassing / attacking part, not their housing problems.

They go to a mental health facility or jail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Way too many wanna-be economists bloviating. Get out and meet real people. I have not met one person who actively wants to be living on the street.

I know several.