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Anonymous
I was asking about Portland. What did you find in Portland that you thought was worse than DC? |
Anonymous
I think you are going to negate everything I said (which applies to DC) BECAUSE I used Portland as an example. True, I had never lived there, I visited a couple of times when I lived in Seattle. Seattle years ago had a problem with youth vagrancy and them taking over some of the plazas (drug use before the legalization of pot industry was already rampant). Portland had it a bit worse already years ago. I spent a lot of years in SF and had seen some areas of it go up and down in quality from yuppified to downright degenerate hellhole where one could film post-apocalyptic sci fi without props. It's once again starting to clean up and property values and rents are up. I would like for this to be the case in DC, but I know, It's not PC to say this. It's not PC to say that I was glad to see the results of the national guard presence and tent cities around Kennedy center, Georgetown and national mall being removed. My family that lives in DC liked these changes and they are not ashamed to admit it. |
Anonymous
I am sorry I didn't seek your highness approval to live in DC   I must have missed some mandatory "political orientation" interview prior to purchasing property years ago. My bad. I'll sign up for the lobotomy required to embrace sh** politics of protecting criminals and violent mentally ill vagrants asap (I had a recent "pleasure" encountering one in Gtown with my underaged daughter who he screamed he was going to kill).
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Anonymous
Move to Mobile, Alabama! It is clean and underpopulated. Is there a particular place where you would like to see the homeless in D. C. reside? So you were happy when this administration bulldozed their tents and removed all of their personal belongings, without ever returning their personal belongings to them? |
Anonymous
It is okay to say cosmopolitan cities are not for you. Aim lower and move further south and you will find your place and your people. The fact that you think a homeless who says “I’m going to kill you” is actually going to kill you, shows you should probably move and also find a good mental health provider for you and also one for your daughter (because she has you as a mother) wherever you move. Good luck and safe travels! |
Anonymous
You sound like an absolute lunatic. |
Anonymous
SF property values and rents are going up because of the AI boom which started actually back in 2022, prior to any change in policy. That said…rents dropped when COVID emptied it out, but property values never really dropped much. |
Anonymous
“A homeless” Hahahaha |
Anonymous
Why don't you take this discussion to Political forums? This is RE forum, and no, nobody who owns property in DC and is in their right mind wants to have shantytown tent compounds sprawling in their neighborhoods. I am sorry this bothers you, I would love to hear how many homeless you had personally housed (you are welcome to provide them with free housing in your own home or a rental you own) and what you had done to get them off the streets. We have crisis of homelessness, mental illness (where many people are aggressive and violent and should not IMHO be in public), and extreme drug abuse. The way we had been addressing it by letting this go and having residents deal with it is making our cities unlivable. But you clearly don't care. Enjoy your suburban house in CC? |
Anonymous
DP. This type of rhetoric is why Trump won. You’re criticizing getting rid of homeless encampments. C’mon. |
Anonymous
I get you. I have sad news though. Most people in DC don’t agree with you, which is why we had the crazy homeless problem we did to begin with. I have no idea why people enjoy the homeless, streets smelling like weed and crime, but they appear to like it all or at least vote like they like it. |
Anonymous
You sound like someone who doesn't own RE and doesn't care about quality of life of urban residents and their guests. You should really take this to the political forums and dish it out there. |
Anonymous
A lot of voters are not property owners, and many people just vote clearly down political lines, not for overall quality of life of city residents or economic prosperity of their own cities. It is sad to see. There are also a lot of juvenile trolls here too. |
Anonymous
You sound completely unhinged...and very unhappy as an individual. Why do you live here? |
Anonymous
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Oof, a lot of gaslighting going on in this thread.
I don't think it makes sense to lump all of the changes in DC in the last year into the same bucket of "Trump initiatives." It's flatly false, first of all. I am someone who was happy to see the homeless encampments cleared out. I live in NE DC and the homeless issue had hit a breaking point circa 2023/2024. It was negatively impacting families, businesses, and the homeless themselves. Examples I personally witnessed were things like: retail employees on H Street NE being repeatedly harassed by homeless people on a daily basis, and entire streets in NOMA becoming impossible to walk down (especially with a child) because the sidewalk was overtaken with tents, bodies, the smell of urine, rats, etc. All of this is better now, and I am grateful for it. If you are fortunate enough to live in a neighborhood that didn't have these issues, congrats. But the idea that it was the big bad government against vulnerable, innocent homeless people is false. The lack of enforcement of vagrancy laws was resulting in violence, harassment, and a loss of public spaces. And now it's not. However, I don't actually attribute that to Trump for the most part. I actually think what happened is that Bowser and others in city government had been fighting for years to try and take down these encampments, but were running into the typical obstacle of DC activists who both refused to see the negative externalities of the issue while also using a variety of legal and political mechanisms to prevent actions. Trump merely tipped the balance agains the activists. He provided cover to a government that already wanted to do something. I loathe that Trump was necessary in order to make that happen, but unfortunately a vocal minority of people in DC have been running amok with public policy for a decade or so now, and it took a revolting orange ahole to shift the balance of power towards the majority in DC, who actually does not want to just cede all our sidewalks and parks over to homeless encampments. The national guard in DC had nothing to do with addressing the encampments. To the degree that they participated in the process, it was only as extra manpower the city chose not to turn down. DC actually has enough personnel to do it and always did, there was just not political will to stand up to activists who were advocating for a totally unacceptable status quo. The NG was beside the point and is a mostly useless force in the city. It's a joke. The ICE enforcement has been terrible and has nothing to do with removal of the homeless encampments. In fact I think the DC government did a good job of acting on the encampments early and in a way that thankfully didn't turn that process into an excuse to round up immigrants for ICE. A lot of people will ignore the things DC did to actually protect citizens from ICE as Trump initiated this take over, because it was intentionally done quietly. ICE and BCP in DC has mostly acted independently from MPD or the city, and certainly that was true in their worst enforcement actions. I object to these and don't feel the city has endorsed or supported them. I obviously also object to Trump's takeover of the Kennedy Center and the Institute for Peace. His destruction of the East Wing and his stupid ballroom proposal. His plans to build a stupid arch at Arlington. And so on. Trump is a pox. I hope every day that this country can find a way to get rid of him and recover from the disease he's helped foster in this country. Which is why it makes me angry that he played any role at all in a necessary improvement to DC, and addressing the homeless encampments. I wish some of the people who stood in the way of this very needed change for YEARS would exercise some introspection and ask themselves who they were helping when they filed injunction after injunction to stop MPD from clearing out encampments that were obviously causing a public health problem, blocking sidewalk access to kids and disabled people, harming businesses and, yes, impacting home values. Was it worth it? All so now Trump can claim he did something good in DC? Learn a freaking lesson, folks. |