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Two child homicides in Cleveland Park/Van Ness apartment buildings in eight days
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Anonymous
*live freely |
Anonymous
They just approved them. Right next to the UDC campus. Can’t make this stuff up. |
Anonymous
You can't get SSI or SSDI for addiction. PTSD, intellectual disability, psychosis, tbi, etc...but not substance use..in fact drug addiction and alcoholism, if material, can disqualify someone from disability benefits. Obviously not the main point here but didn't want false information to percolate unchecked. |
Anonymous
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Of course a marijuana dispensary next to UDC. It will contribute even more diversity and vibrancy to the neighborhood. Just give them the neighborhood. It will never be the same again. You can't undo the damage.
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Anonymous
The parents are supposed to be the supports for children. |
Anonymous
This. A 32 year old man should be working a job. We should not be providing free housing to violent felons and allowing them to threaten others in the community. |
Anonymous
Because (1) DC's "check the box" laws means that landlords cannot refuse to rent to tenants based on prior criminal convictions; (2) DC's Human Rights Law prohibits discrimination based on "source of income" so a landlord does not have any rights to limit the number of voucher tenants in a building, and once there is a critical mass of voucher tenants, the market tenants will start to depart, thus converting a private building into de facto public housing; (3) it is impossible to get a tenant evicted on the basis of a "lease violation" aka tenant behavior---DC's extremely liberal judiciary will grant extensive rights to cure. So people who are having their rent paid by the government who threaten their fellow tenants and generally engage in anti-social behaviors in violation of their leases have little to fear with respect to eviction. So now the apartment-dwelling progressives of Ward 3 are getting to see the policies they voted for in action . . . . |
Anonymous
| CM Frumin is out with a statement. The solution is, you guessed it, . . . . more services! |
Anonymous
Why? WTF? |
Anonymous
Unfortunately, exactly this. Very few stranger boogey men, usually boogey man you know. |
Anonymous
Read any of the news articles. The father beat the child to death. He told 911 the child "fell." Now he is out already. Hopefully to be re-arrested soon. RIP little guy. |
Anonymous
Where the old Wells Fargo used to be. It's something Van Ness Main Street has been eager for for years. SMH. |
Anonymous
This but to add a detail, even if evicted for non-payment of their share or for criminal or violent conduct toward staff or other tenants, they just move a building up or across the street. DC does not pull vouchers for pretty much any reason. Housing First, a HUD program, forbids any conditions being placed on the voucher tenant. Social workers could knock on the door 24/7/365 and there is no obligation to answer, never mind get drug or MH treatment, stop engaging in antisocial behavior (dirty diapers thrown in lobby and stairwell of one of the FEW bldgs in Van Ness not yet named a "nuisance property", in recycling bins too), stop drug dealing, stop threatening staff and other residents, etc. |
Anonymous
Vouchers are never pulled. https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/08/dc-paid-housing-chronic-homelessness/ At SG, one guy stabbed someone and triggered a SWAT incident. While he was incarcerated, other tenants got a stay away order. His voucher was simply moved up to Forest Hills to The Brandywine. 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 Article is from 2019, none of this is new. Connecticut House has a LOT of visible drug dealing and violence in and around the building. It's my understanding that many voucher tenants have moved out due to safety concerns. Big buildings up and down Connecticut and Wisconsin but even rented condo units and small garden style apts in Palisades and Glover Park have more and more vouchers, and they were converted at some point from 1 year to PSH, permanent supportive housing, with preference given to addicts, the mentally ill and felons "returning citizens." DC pays well over market rate for vouchers and that has led to a lot of big and small landlords targeting the income stream. |
Anonymous
This. There was no mom living in the unit. |