Fairfax county wants to erect homeless shelter next to schools

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Anonymous wrote:I'll gladly take a homeless shelter over a GUN STORE near a school. One promotes compassion and the other promotes killing. I know which lesson I want to teach my children.

One is a rights guaranteed in the Constitution the other isn't. So there's that.

Second, there would be no place for a gunshop by the school as its a residential area so your point is moot

An outdated "right". And a gun shop just went in by Franklin Sherman. WTF?

Again, I'll take a homeless shelter any day over a gun shop. But I guess if you support gun shops near schools then it's unlikely that you would care enough about others to support any homeless shelter anywhere.

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There's a homeless shelter in Bethesda near North Bethesda Midfle School. It's fine. Granted it's only women and children but it's fine.
Shelters are there to shelter people and they have rules. What's the problem?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'll gladly take a homeless shelter over a GUN STORE near a school. One promotes compassion and the other promotes killing. I know which lesson I want to teach my children.

One is a rights guaranteed in the Constitution the other isn't. So there's that.

Second, there would be no place for a gunshop by the school as its a residential area so your point is moot

An outdated "right". And a gun shop just went in by Franklin Sherman. WTF?

Again, I'll take a homeless shelter any day over a gun shop. But I guess if you support gun shops near schools then it's unlikely that you would care enough about others to support any homeless shelter anywhere.

Actually more relevant now than ever.

Gun shop owners aren't committing crimes, homeless people are magnets for crime

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a homeless shelter in Bethesda near North Bethesda Midfle School. It's fine. Granted it's only women and children but it's fine.
Shelters are there to shelter people and they have rules. What's the problem?

Easy, they have no place to go during the day

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's a homeless shelter in Bethesda near North Bethesda Midfle School. It's fine. Granted it's only women and children but it's fine.
Shelters are there to shelter people and they have rules. What's the problem?

Easy, they have no place to go during the day

Pop on over to Reston and see where they go. Story hour at the library? Go out with a realtor? https://www.restonnow.com/2015/12/07/homeless-man-found-squatting-in-swanky-west-market-home/

Play with crap at Best Buy and the Apple Store and then eat lunch at Trader Joe's and Harris Teeter?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly, this is sad. The are doing this in this area because it's one of the poorer area of the county and they can get away with it without the neighbors losing their heads and protesting. I wouldn't imagine this occurring in West Springfield or Burke.

There are $1.5-2M homes less than 1/2 mile from the proposed area.

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Anonymous wrote:There's a homeless shelter in Bethesda near North Bethesda Midfle School. It's fine. Granted it's only women and children but it's fine.
Shelters are there to shelter people and they have rules. What's the problem?

I posted this before: I have lived in an affluent area with a family homeless shelter very close by schools and where we lived. Yes, agreed, no issues. But, if this is a male only shelter, then no, I wouldn't be ok with it at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Build it next to an unemployment office.

Or across from Total Wine...which is where this one will be located!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's a homeless shelter in Bethesda near North Bethesda Midfle School. It's fine. Granted it's only women and children but it's fine.
Shelters are there to shelter people and they have rules. What's the problem?

I posted this before: I have lived in an affluent area with a family homeless shelter very close by schools and where we lived. Yes, agreed, no issues. But, if this is a male only shelter, then no, I wouldn't be ok with it at all.

Men and women, across from a liquor store in an highly residential area, very few commercial entities. Also, traffic is already horrendous in this intersection.

I'll sell you by $750k valued house...

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Anonymous wrote:Which schools would this be close to?

Parklawn, Belvedere and Mary Queen of Apostles

Maybe the third, but it's not that close to the first two public schools. Parklawn is at the other end of Lincolnia Road and Belvedere is almost in Annandale.

ParkLawn is less than a mile

Not according to google maps it's not. Distances must seem closer to you when you are afraid.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.change.org/p/nextdoor-parklawn-stop-fairfax-county-from-erecting-a-homeless-shelter-next-door-to-lincolnia-senior-center

And a senior center. With a daycare, elementary school, private schools as less than 1/10 a mile away I find this an atrocious move. Citizens of the area are concerned for their kids safety as well as the safety of their elderly realitives in the senior center. My daughter goes to the very good Catholic school that is about three hundred yards away. This sickens my stomach.

It sickens your stomach. What is wrong with you? Just b/c they are homeless you believe their are all violent criminals. WOW.

You are pretty awful OP.

But lets just say you are right, homeless shelters have a curfew and typically the guests can't come and go as they please throughout the night, so based on your judgment of the homeless isn't it better to have them be inside a shelter safely away from the kids and elderly?

BTW if your kid goes to a "very good Catholic school" there is a pretty good chance there is at least one homeless child there on scholarship. Speaking of your daughter being in Catholic school I am pretty sure they are not teachering her to be judgmental and sickened by the less fortunate. Maybe you should go to school with your daughter tomorrow.

I have an idea, let's move it to your neighborhood right next to the school and see how you feel. I think that's a great idea. There's no screening these people to see if they're mentally unstable which a lot are. This is a safety issue and as other have noted it brings crime

I live in courthouse, there is homeless shelter by the metro about 1/2 mile from where I live and 3 or 4 blocks from the elementary school. I am fine with it.
Try again!

NP. And homeless people wander around Clarendon all the time. No impact on home prices. One dude is really loud, though. Local flavor. Keeps the spineless millennials on their toes.

et me guess. The two PP's who are "fine with" homeless people in courthouse are dead-end supporters of Libby Garvey's "challenger". They are Tejada diehards, belong to VOICE and volunteer at "community assistance", "make sandwiches for day ""laborers"" and other "if you build it, they will come" things. Got it.

You guessed wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:Which schools would this be close to?

Parklawn, Belvedere and Mary Queen of Apostles

Maybe the third, but it's not that close to the first two public schools. Parklawn is at the other end of Lincolnia Road and Belvedere is almost in Annandale.

.6 miles to Mary Queen of Apostles

You don't want the poor or homeless near a church?

Fine, tear the church down. Maybe the poor and homeless don't want to be .6 miles from an institution associated with a bunch of pedophiles.

No, my point is that it is six times farther than what the petitioners claim.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's a homeless shelter in Bethesda near North Bethesda Midfle School. It's fine. Granted it's only women and children but it's fine.
Shelters are there to shelter people and they have rules. What's the problem?

I posted this before: I have lived in an affluent area with a family homeless shelter very close by schools and where we lived. Yes, agreed, no issues. But, if this is a male only shelter, then no, I wouldn't be ok with it at all.

Men and women, across from a liquor store in an highly residential area, very few commercial entities. Also, traffic is already horrendous in this intersection.

I'll sell you by $750k valued house...

PP here. As I said if it's families, it's fine. If not, then no.

BTW, the area I lived in (out of state) where this was has a an average home value of $1.2mil+. There are no homes for $750K or under in that area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:There's a homeless shelter in Bethesda near North Bethesda Midfle School. It's fine. Granted it's only women and children but it's fine.
Shelters are there to shelter people and they have rules. What's the problem?

I posted this before: I have lived in an affluent area with a family homeless shelter very close by schools and where we lived. Yes, agreed, no issues. But, if this is a male only shelter, then no, I wouldn't be ok with it at all.

Men and women, across from a liquor store in an highly residential area, very few commercial entities. Also, traffic is already horrendous in this intersection.

I'll sell you by $750k valued house...

PP here. As I said if it's families, it's fine. If not, then no.

BTW, the area I lived in (out of state) where this was has a an average home value of $1.2mil+. There are no homes for $750K or under in that area.

Lot's of $1.5-$2M dollar homes even closer than my home to this proposed location. They are even more pissed than me.

[Anonymous]

Wake up people. The homeless are already living in your neighborhood. This is just a better place for them to be.