Homeless tents creeping into the nice/residential part of DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Leave the homeless alone. You all sound like the ghost of Marley but you haven't learned any lessons yet. Horrible people.

Give them someplace they can pitch their tents in peace.

How many tents are pitched on your block? Zero. Lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Starbucks in Union Station is closing 7/22 with safety of staff and customers cited as reason

https://www.reddit.com/r/washingtondc/comments/vxkb88/union_station_starbucks_is_closing/

This should be a massive alarm bell for the city.

But apparently things were worse in the 90s, something, something, and have you looked at real estate prices?

Starbucks is doing this in several cities, not just DC.

Great new excuse: it’s not just us!

In every one of those cities, including Seattle, Portland, and LA, the cities should be concerned because the stores they are closing are in areas where there is high crime and anti-social behavior that is just allowed to proliferate unchecked.

This is a growing DC problem and a growing national problem related to urban quality of life.

Equity.
Why are Democrat mayors making their cities sh*tholes?

Equity. Feels good, huh? Yea

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Leave the homeless alone. You all sound like the ghost of Marley but you haven't learned any lessons yet. Horrible people.

Give them someplace they can pitch their tents in peace.

How many tents are pitched on your block? Zero. Lol.

And I don't want any on my block, either. I'm the poster who thinks they should have a designated campground somewhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Leave the homeless alone. You all sound like the ghost of Marley but you haven't learned any lessons yet. Horrible people.

Give them someplace they can pitch their tents in peace.

How many tents are pitched on your block? Zero. Lol.

And I don't want any on my block, either. I'm the poster who thinks they should have a designated campground somewhere.

Sure. Like where?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Leave the homeless alone. You all sound like the ghost of Marley but you haven't learned any lessons yet. Horrible people.

Give them someplace they can pitch their tents in peace.

How many tents are pitched on your block? Zero. Lol.

And I don't want any on my block, either. I'm the poster who thinks they should have a designated campground somewhere.

Sure. Like where?

Mayor’s house. Oh wait…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Leave the homeless alone. You all sound like the ghost of Marley but you haven't learned any lessons yet. Horrible people.

Give them someplace they can pitch their tents in peace.

Like the plains of Nebraska?

There are miles and miles of open land where they can camp. Why does it have to be DC? Particularly when many of the homeless aren't originally even from DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Leave the homeless alone. You all sound like the ghost of Marley but you haven't learned any lessons yet. Horrible people.

Give them someplace they can pitch their tents in peace.

How many tents are pitched on your block? Zero. Lol.

And I don't want any on my block, either. I'm the poster who thinks they should have a designated campground somewhere.

Sure. Like where?

Mayor’s house. Oh wait…

What?!? No campers allowed near HER house?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Leave the homeless alone. You all sound like the ghost of Marley but you haven't learned any lessons yet. Horrible people.

Give them someplace they can pitch their tents in peace.

Like the plains of Nebraska?

There are miles and miles of open land where they can camp. Why does it have to be DC? Particularly when many of the homeless aren't originally even from DC.

It’s DC because DC’s elected leaders actively encourage this behavior. I moved away from DC in part for this reason. This thread, by the way, is hilarious: lots of limousine liberals mad that their feel-good policies are starting to affect their own lives (Starbucks is closing! Tents pitched in my yard!). Accomodating dangerous and anti-social behavior is fine for everyone else, but not where you live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Leave the homeless alone. You all sound like the ghost of Marley but you haven't learned any lessons yet. Horrible people.

Give them someplace they can pitch their tents in peace.

Like the plains of Nebraska?

There are miles and miles of open land where they can camp. Why does it have to be DC? Particularly when many of the homeless aren't originally even from DC.

It’s DC because DC’s elected leaders actively encourage this behavior. I moved away from DC in part for this reason. This thread, by the way, is hilarious: lots of limousine liberals mad that their feel-good policies are starting to affect their own lives (Starbucks is closing! Tents pitched in my yard!). Accomodating dangerous and anti-social behavior is fine for everyone else, but not where you live.

DC's elected leader -- Mayor Bowser -- has not encouraged this behavior. She routinely brings in construction vehicles to dump and clear out these encampments without offering an alternative site.

It's not surprising that the people lacking compassion for the mentally ill homeless in our society are also so bitter and mean spirited towards others in society: name calling, sarcasm. This is a real issue. Maybe you can try discussing it like a real adult.

[Anonymous]

There needs to be a real solution.

Re-open good mental institutions long term for people that need them.

I have a mentally ill family member who has been institutionalized many times. We had to fight like hell to get her into the hospital. It shouldn't be that way.

Our mental health care system needs an overhaul.

The on ramp for long term mental health care should be MUCH easier to access. The problems we see with homelessness are largely a result of poor services for mentally ill people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There needs to be a real solution.

Re-open good mental institutions long term for people that need them.

I have a mentally ill family member who has been institutionalized many times. We had to fight like hell to get her into the hospital. It shouldn't be that way.

Our mental health care system needs an overhaul.

The on ramp for long term mental health care should be MUCH easier to access. The problems we see with homelessness are largely a result of poor services for mentally ill people.

I agree. But I think they need some minimal place to live instead of being institutionalized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There needs to be a real solution.

Re-open good mental institutions long term for people that need them.

I have a mentally ill family member who has been institutionalized many times. We had to fight like hell to get her into the hospital. It shouldn't be that way.

Our mental health care system needs an overhaul.

The on ramp for long term mental health care should be MUCH easier to access. The problems we see with homelessness are largely a result of poor services for mentally ill people.

Since opening mental health institutions and forcing the homeless into them would be seen as racist and bogged down in litigation from the DC homeless advocacy machine, the only option is to bulldoze these camps or just allow the encampments to grow

[Anonymous]

Why can't you pick all of the camping homeless up in welfare checks, with all of their stuff, and put them in a DC homeless hotel apartment with 48 hours of guaranteed homeless services looking into their individual issue. All of their stuff is locked into big DC locking supercans until they are released. Then every time they check themselves out, they are rounded back up until there is enough documentation to involuntarily commit. At that point commit them to inpatient treatment and reevaluate their case every quarter. By the Mayors own stats, we have enough homeless apartments available for all (not family housing but singles). Just start rounding people up and placing them in housing. It is not a liberty thing it is a health and safety thing..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why can't you pick all of the camping homeless up in welfare checks, with all of their stuff, and put them in a DC homeless hotel apartment with 48 hours of guaranteed homeless services looking into their individual issue. All of their stuff is locked into big DC locking supercans until they are released. Then every time they check themselves out, they are rounded back up until there is enough documentation to involuntarily commit. At that point commit them to inpatient treatment and reevaluate their case every quarter. By the Mayors own stats, we have enough homeless apartments available for all (not family housing but singles). Just start rounding people up and placing them in housing. It is not a liberty thing it is a health and safety thing..

Because the advocacy groups are claiming that this kind of housing is less safe than the streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There needs to be a real solution.

Re-open good mental institutions long term for people that need them.

I have a mentally ill family member who has been institutionalized many times. We had to fight like hell to get her into the hospital. It shouldn't be that way.

Our mental health care system needs an overhaul.

The on ramp for long term mental health care should be MUCH easier to access. The problems we see with homelessness are largely a result of poor services for mentally ill people.

I agree. But I think they need some minimal place to live instead of being institutionalized.

What they need is supervision and tough love to get them off drugs. That’s why many want to live on the streets or in tents in the parks. The shelters prohibit drug use. As Nancy Reagan said, we have to “just say no!”