Encampment by the Metropolitan Branch Trail

[Anonymous]

I noticed that the encampment is growing and now filled with trash. There has been an old recliner added recently. How can we offer alternatives to our homeless? Could the city offer a site within the neighborhoods with facilities and regulation/ monitoring by MPD?

And if you have to ask, i am an AA woman and I have lived in the city 28 years. I would like to see the city come up with alternatives for everyone.

[Anonymous]

There are alternatives. There are shelters. There are programs available. There are numerous ways to back on track and get off the street.

If you're living in a hobo camp in 2019, it's because you choose to. And impossible as it is for you to believe, there are people out there who choose to.

[Anonymous]

The authorities need to clear this out, pronto.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I noticed that the encampment is growing and now filled with trash. There has been an old recliner added recently. How can we offer alternatives to our homeless? Could the city offer a site within the neighborhoods with facilities and regulation/ monitoring by MPD?

And if you have to ask, i am an AA woman and I have lived in the city 28 years. I would like to see the city come up with alternatives for everyone.

Certainly. Let's offer sites in Kalorama, Mass Avenue Heights, Spring Valley, Georgetown, Chevy Chase DC, and make the wealthy inhabitants of those neighborhoods pay for housing, treating their medical and psychological conditions, and putting them on a path to gainful employment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The authorities need to clear this out, pronto.

Leave these people alone for God's sake. Be a decent human being. No one is "choosing" to live on the streets because they're lazy. They are ill, incapable of helping themselves, incapable of following through with all the paper work or appointments necessary to get the very limited resources that are offered, that take forever to come through anyway, etc etc etc. Where are they supposed to go? I heard on the news a year ago about a man who was discovered living in a hollowed out cave-like area in -- Arlington? They arrested him. Good God, the man is living in an underground cave -- that's illegal?

Grow a heart. Be a decent human being who will make it into heaven one day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The authorities need to clear this out, pronto.

+2, it's disgusting what those people are doing to the environment. Look at all the trash. Where are they going to the bathroom? That camp is basically a hazmat site. It'll cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to clean it up and mitigate all the environmental damage.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The authorities need to clear this out, pronto.

Leave these people alone for God's sake. Be a decent human being. No one is "choosing" to live on the streets because they're lazy. They are ill, incapable of helping themselves, incapable of following through with all the paper work or appointments necessary to get the very limited resources that are offered, that take forever to come through anyway, etc etc etc. Where are they supposed to go? I heard on the news a year ago about a man who was discovered living in a hollowed out cave-like area in -- Arlington? They arrested him. Good God, the man is living in an underground cave -- that's illegal?

Grow a heart. Be a decent human being who will make it into heaven one day.

Two solutions-
Forced hospitalization for the mentally ill chronic homeless
And opening day shelters for those down on their luck.
Camps should be razed and libraries should not be the alternative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The authorities need to clear this out, pronto.

Leave these people alone for God's sake. Be a decent human being. No one is "choosing" to live on the streets because they're lazy. They are ill, incapable of helping themselves, incapable of following through with all the paper work or appointments necessary to get the very limited resources that are offered, that take forever to come through anyway, etc etc etc. Where are they supposed to go? I heard on the news a year ago about a man who was discovered living in a hollowed out cave-like area in -- Arlington? They arrested him. Good God, the man is living in an underground cave -- that's illegal?

Grow a heart. Be a decent human being who will make it into heaven one day.

+1 I wish everyone felt like we do!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The authorities need to clear this out, pronto.

Leave these people alone for God's sake. Be a decent human being. No one is "choosing" to live on the streets because they're lazy. They are ill, incapable of helping themselves, incapable of following through with all the paper work or appointments necessary to get the very limited resources that are offered, that take forever to come through anyway, etc etc etc. Where are they supposed to go? I heard on the news a year ago about a man who was discovered living in a hollowed out cave-like area in -- Arlington? They arrested him. Good God, the man is living in an underground cave -- that's illegal?

Grow a heart. Be a decent human being who will make it into heaven one day.

+1 I wish everyone felt like we do!

Wishing people would live in caves is having a heart? How about lobbying to commit more resources to hospitalization and day shelters? Your definition of having a heart seems a little medieval.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The authorities need to clear this out, pronto.

Leave these people alone for God's sake. Be a decent human being. No one is "choosing" to live on the streets because they're lazy. They are ill, incapable of helping themselves, incapable of following through with all the paper work or appointments necessary to get the very limited resources that are offered, that take forever to come through anyway, etc etc etc. Where are they supposed to go? I heard on the news a year ago about a man who was discovered living in a hollowed out cave-like area in -- Arlington? They arrested him. Good God, the man is living in an underground cave -- that's illegal?

Grow a heart. Be a decent human being who will make it into heaven one day.

+1 I wish everyone felt like we do!

Absolutely we should care. That’s why federal work camps for street people, where they can be fed, get needed medical care, and good fellowship while learning a trade just make so much sense.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The authorities need to clear this out, pronto.

Leave these people alone for God's sake. Be a decent human being. No one is "choosing" to live on the streets because they're lazy. They are ill, incapable of helping themselves, incapable of following through with all the paper work or appointments necessary to get the very limited resources that are offered, that take forever to come through anyway, etc etc etc. Where are they supposed to go? I heard on the news a year ago about a man who was discovered living in a hollowed out cave-like area in -- Arlington? They arrested him. Good God, the man is living in an underground cave -- that's illegal?

Grow a heart. Be a decent human being who will make it into heaven one day.

Permitting these people to live in these encampments is neither caring nor compassionate.

[Anonymous]

If I were homeless, I wouldn't live in a shelter or work camp or whatever other regimented scheme you people are talking about.

I'm an adult. I come and go as I please. I do what I want, when I want. Have you ever been to a shelter? They treat you like a child. Sign in. Sign out. Pat-down search. Bed checks. Constant questions: "Where are you going? When will you be back? Doors close at 8, if you're not back by then you can't get in".... it goes on and on.

I'd live in the woods in a tent or under a overpass and do as I pleased, and come and go as I pleased. The reason people don't use shelters is because the shelter operators think they're running a quasi-minimum-security-jail or a inmate halfway house. Rules rules rules, and questions questions questions... F that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The authorities need to clear this out, pronto.

Leave these people alone for God's sake. Be a decent human being. No one is "choosing" to live on the streets because they're lazy. They are ill, incapable of helping themselves, incapable of following through with all the paper work or appointments necessary to get the very limited resources that are offered, that take forever to come through anyway, etc etc etc. Where are they supposed to go? I heard on the news a year ago about a man who was discovered living in a hollowed out cave-like area in -- Arlington? They arrested him. Good God, the man is living in an underground cave -- that's illegal?

Grow a heart. Be a decent human being who will make it into heaven one day.

It was Arlington and he and others were living in a cave just above the GW Parkway. There was also an old house called The Castle nearby that people occupied before it was razed. I have seen police roust a homeless man who is around the McDonalds at Glebe Rd and Rt 50. He sleeps under a tarp and us usually back the next day.

[Anonymous]

The encampments are a public health disaster waiting to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The authorities need to clear this out, pronto.

Leave these people alone for God's sake. Be a decent human being. No one is "choosing" to live on the streets because they're lazy. They are ill, incapable of helping themselves, incapable of following through with all the paper work or appointments necessary to get the very limited resources that are offered, that take forever to come through anyway, etc etc etc. Where are they supposed to go? I heard on the news a year ago about a man who was discovered living in a hollowed out cave-like area in -- Arlington? They arrested him. Good God, the man is living in an underground cave -- that's illegal?

Grow a heart. Be a decent human being who will make it into heaven one day.

+1 I wish everyone felt like we do!

Wishing people would live in caves is having a heart? How about lobbying to commit more resources to hospitalization and day shelters? Your definition of having a heart seems a little medieval.

Seriously, WTF? It's compassionate to encourage people to live in these encampments?

So twisted.