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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mayor Bowser has closed DC General shelter (the site is being redeveloped for condos and mixed-use) and is building replacement shelters in each ward.  While there may be some benefits to the plan (besides the benefits, of course, to the crony developers who get the rights to the DC General site), there will me other, spillover impacts on areas like Cathedral Heights and McLean Gatdens.  From WaPo:

“Maurice ____ stepped out of a minivan at the D.C. General shelter for homeless families, opened the trunk and announced his wares — free syringes, condoms and Narcan, a brand of naloxone nasal inhaler — in a hoarse shout. Among the dozens who lined up was Renee ____, a resident of Southeast Washington.? ____ said she no longer uses heroin but has friends who do.”[/quote]

I fully support bringing homeless persons and drug users to shelters in the better neighborhoods of the city.

It allows the residents of those neighborhoods get a better understanding of how their actions with regard to opposing taxes, gentrification, white privilege and institutional racism all work together to devastate the poor of this city.

Sometimes people need to have their noses rubbed in the messes they make, lest they be unaware of it. Keeping most of the homeless at DC general or 2nd and D concentrates them in areas where the people responsible for them being homeless never have to see the results of their handiwork. Far better those shelters be moved to Cleveland Park, Glover Park, Palisades, Foxhall, AU park and Chevy Chase. [/quote]

At least they’re putting the shelter next to the police station so that the cops can ride herd.  Hopefully the police will vigorously enforce the loitering and panhandling laws.[/quote]

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