Encampment has started in our downtown SS neighborhood

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Anonymous wrote:Update: My neighbor emailed the County. She says a police officer and someone else examined the encampment for about 30 min. She though the second man may have been a social worker.

Hopefully something will happen now. Plz don’t let the mean people on this thread get you down. Sorry that you have to live next to this. Maybe follow up with the police about what they plan to do about it.

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Anonymous wrote:How were their belongings able to stay in the apartment when the couple was evicted?

Have you never seen an eviction?

I haven’t. I assumed the landlord disposed of the belongings so they could rent the apartment to someone else. It seems odd that their belongings are allowed to stay in the apartment.

Their belongings were placed on the sidewalk and in the wooded area. It looks like a hoarding situation got them evicted. They do not want to leave their things although everything has been rained on several times since July.

Since July?!?
What are these people doing on the days that the heat/humidity index is almost 100°?
That can't be safe -- especially adding drinking alcohol on top of that, which is so dehydrating.

The heat/humidity has been UNBEARABLE this summer... I don't get how an elderly couple survives something like this with no major consequences to their health/breathing?

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Anonymous wrote:Call the police. Contact your city and county representatives.

America is sleepwalking into a massive homeless crisis. I doubt we will get anywhere beyond bootstraps as a solution, sadly.

We are already there. The current situation is practically Parable of the Sower stuff.

Love Octavia Butler. Nice reference

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Anonymous wrote:Time to move out of the ghetto.

The ghetto where you can’t find a SFH under $1 mil.

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Anonymous wrote:Time to move out of the ghetto.

The ghetto where you can’t find a SFH under $1 mil.

With a quick Zillow search I see condos under 300k and SFH at 600k. It’s not dc.

[Anonymous]

That’s Maryland for you, let’s not bother people, it might hurt their feelings

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Anonymous wrote:There have been tent encampments for a while now in the city of Alexandria and they are totally ok with it here so good luck op this seems to be the new normal here now. They even have a bathroom tent here!

Where in Alexandria are there encampments?

north beauregard & Duke, 395 king st underpass, columbia pike and 7.

Don't forget the guy who lives in the buses adjacent to Fairlington but across from the Bradlee McDonalds on King. He's been there over a year, they do nothing about him. He's always drunk.

north beauregard & Duke - Fairfax County

395 king st underpass - there is no underpass below 395 for King St, but I haven’t seen the encampments on the overpass. I’ll have to look next time I’m there. Or are you saying they are next to the Highway?

columbia pike and 7 - Fairfax County

Fairlington across from Bradlee - that’s Arlington County.

Either way, most (if not all of these) are not City of Alexandria.

Close enough!

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Wait, what does homelessness have to do with the fact that we want Black people to be able to vote and opposed a violent coup?

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Wait, what does homelessness have to do with the fact that we want Black people to be able to vote and opposed a violent coup?

Don't engage the troll.
This person clearly needs a great deal of attention based on the dog whistle political posts they keep slipping in every once in a while about Dems (thus far, nobody but you have engaged in... please stop).

This is obvious troll bait.

[Anonymous]

OP I'm sorry you're going through this. That area has always been a bit dicey. Sometimes they get it under control enough to raise hope, but the gritty underbelly is always lingering underneath. Have you thought about moving?

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Anonymous wrote:Time to move out of the ghetto.

The ghetto where you can’t find a SFH under $1 mil.

With a quick Zillow search I see condos under 300k and SFH at 600k. It’s not dc.

You have to focus on zip 20910, which is the most desirable, then look at the houses that actually come up in the search. There's no SFH worth buying under $1 million. And notwithstanding this homeless encampment outside of a single apartment building, downtown SFH a great place to live. Honestly, there are homeless people throughout the DMV, but in places where people own rather than rent, this behavior would not be allowed, and the police would have been called instantly. Good luck trying this in Woodside Park.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait you mean you don’t like living next to the homeless? They should be living elsewhere right? Like next to some poor people and not nice rich people like you …

I’m not rich. I live in one of the old, lower income apartment buildings. We’re a four person family in a two bedroom unit. I don’t want to get hepatitis from diarrhea stained clothing flung under my car or have my daughter sexually assaulted while doing laundry.

You are richer then the homeless people.

[Anonymous]

OP, this sounds really unsettling. I think you can hold two ideas in your head at the same time - one, having compassion for people in this situation, and two, not wanting to live in/expose your kids to unsanitary and unsafe situations. People act like everyone who objects to homeless people in their neighborhood is a NIMBY monster, but I don’t think that’s fair.

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Wait you mean you don’t like living next to the homeless? They should be living elsewhere right? Like next to some poor people and not nice rich people like you …

Stop pretending you'd like it if crazy people and addicts were camped outside your house.

Yes, they should live elsewhere. Specifically,

1. For the insane - involuntary commitment to mental hospitals
2. For the addicts - involuntary commitment to drug treatment / rehab centers
3. For the criminals - involuntary commitment to prison

We will be having shanty-towns, tent encampments are just the beginning. Even if we build a bunch of free housing and tiny units for the unhoused the bigger problem is that these people cannot take care of themselves anyway and nobody wants these public housing projects in their area. institutionalizing them would require changing laws and massive expense on building these prison like facilities and hiring people to run them. they have to be built on emptier cheaper blocks of land or in abandoned rural towns. Unhoused don't want to live there, and forcing them to be deported there would cause a massive outrage from the very liberal people who are now complaining about sharing space with degeneracy of addicted and mentally ill and too desperate to care.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait you mean you don’t like living next to the homeless? They should be living elsewhere right? Like next to some poor people and not nice rich people like you …

I’m not rich. I live in one of the old, lower income apartment buildings. We’re a four person family in a two bedroom unit. I don’t want to get hepatitis from diarrhea stained clothing flung under my car or have my daughter sexually assaulted while doing laundry.

You are richer then the homeless people.

And therefore should deal with their degeneracy on daily basis?