Shooting at Brandywine & Connecticut Ave NW This Afternoon
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Anonymous
also this is DCUM - if you’re going to make a claim about federal regulations you darn well better support it with an actual citation. |
Anonymous
| Housing First gets a lot of press, especially with outlets like NPR. There is a great deal of support for it in DC, whether that is informed support or not is unclear. |
Anonymous
Where is your citation that DC can implement Housing First differently than the HUD model? Which specific provisions are you claiming that they can change? Barriers to entry? Requirements for participation in services? Eviction for drug use if not otherwise in violation of lease? Others? This is DCUM, be specific and support your claim. |
Anonymous
YOU are the one acting like you are a federal housing legal expert. Not me! I’d like to know more but cleary you don’t actually know. |
Anonymous
Ok, so research and let us know what you find. WP has written many articles on the topic, including a series in 2019 that focused on Sedgewick Gardens in Cleveland Park. There is even a lengthy wiki about Housing First. So, have at it. |
Anonymous
Yes, similar guidelines would be useful. |
Anonymous
A bit. It's been closed this week for maintenance. |
Anonymous
There are men who regularly linger and smoke marijuana on the benches around the park. This has been going on for two years. Does DCMPD ever do any undercover enforcement? |
Anonymous
Maybe for trash cans left out too long or a bike lane being blocked. Not for crime. |
Anonymous
| Is the only answer to just move away? It begins to feel like this. This administration is a failure from the top down. No ward should be so lacking in amenities that people feel a need to send their children to another ward to go to school. The mayor is concentrated on making ward 3 pay for having had a racist founder 100 years ago. She takes huge contributions from developers then tries to give away our public land to them for “affordable housing” using BLM as a cover. She doesn’t care about the wards producing this grinding poverty and crime. She does nothing to help them. Our own ward 3 CM has bought into the guilt trip. “There is no diversity in Chevy Chase so we need to build more apartments.” Walk on Connecticut avenue and tell me that. We have a lot of ethnic and racial diversity. Putting addicts and mentally individuals into apartments to drive long time rent controlled tenants out should be criminal. But just as the Mayor’s voucher queen took kickbacks from landlords to place over valued vouchers in these buildings and she only stepped down and has not been fined or taken to court, should tell everyone what’s happening. The Mayor protects her friends. |
Anonymous
| This is exactly on point. Fortunately the FBI is now investigating the Bowser administration for this activity. I hope something comes of it. |
Anonymous
I mentioned this to 2D recently. They said they will try to do drive bys more frequently, and to call when see a problem, give descriptions, etc. Of course, there is the concern about putting a target on yourself if you go there often and they come right after you leave. |
Anonymous
I would have asked Frumin about this at the meeting but he is not that informed about the program and he did not have a staff member who is an expert present, nor did he invite someone from DC agencies. He is a proponent of MORE of this, people have to understand this. He can be pushed to go through the motions, maybe, or to mouth platitudes, but he only wants the fun parts of the job and to get accolades as a SJW. I really do miss Cheh. I know a few people who heard the shots, it's traumatizing that this happened right where people's kids play, they walk to BreadFurst, Politics & Prose, play tennis and more than 1 has said that they have changed their routine or feel anxiety going out or that they drive now. When people in W7 & 8 talk about trauma related to crime, I have always believed them. There are a lot of law abiding pro-social people who could benefit from vouchers, but the reality is that many of them have relatives, friends and associates that come along and cause issues. MPD has indicated that the victim and shooters did not live in FH, that's of cold comfort. The man who threw the young mom out the window at Connecticut House, paralyzing her in front of a toddler, was not on the lease. Public public housing, not this private public housing twist, has more rules, security, a chance at door control, but has always had this issue. The way that they try to now shift the responsibility for violent behavior of individuals to landlords is ludicrous, having limited the grounds to screen people out and with AG suing companies that do not accept vouchers. And "services" as the mantra is ridiculous. What "services" would have made the violent, drug dealing felon not throw his baby mama out a window after strangling her and tying her up? Plus there is the not required to participate provision. People might at least try to exercise better "door control" themselves if they stood to lose their voucher if a visitor dealt drugs or was violent in or around the building. I do not see this genie going back in the bottle. The only thing that has changed since this series from 2019 is things getting worse. 3,000 PSH vouchers being used on Connecticut and Wisconsin, the impact was/is inevitable. The piece I don't quite get is where the City thinks tax income is going to come from if W3 becomes an increasing % of people living on tax money rather than paying it as has historically been the case? https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-housed-the-homeless-in-upscale-apartments-it-hasnt-gone-as-planned/2019/04/16/60c8ab9c-5648-11e9-8ef3-fbd41a2ce4d5_story.html |
Anonymous
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The funny thing is that Cheh would be considered a far-left activist type in most places in this country. She had a hand in a lot of the problems we see today - she voted to decriminalize fare evasion, she was in favor of lowering the MPD budget below what was necessary to retain officers in 2020, she voted for the DC crime bill that was co-written by DC Justice Lab activists and that Biden ended up opposing, and she endorsed Frumin over Goulet at the end. She just wasn't as far off the deep end as Frumin appears to be.
And that's the problem with the activist groups, there's really no limit. Even if they get everything they want today, they're going to be asking for twice as much tomorrow - even fewer officers, even fewer penalties for violent crime, even more money funneled into failed programs. |
Anonymous
Look at the 911 call center as another example that puts people's lives at risk. She brought back someone who had left under a cloud and got rid of an interim head who had been a whistleblower. The 911 issues and the randomness of crime worry me a lot. |