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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dupont circle, and in particular the 17th street strip which used to have a vibrant, proud local scene, has really deteriorated in the past few years. I am so dismayed as I've lived in the area for 15 years. In the past three years, I've seen unhoused people clearly high on drugs sitting in the street, having shouting matches, and tent encampments spreading in multiple areas of the commercial strip. There is feces in alleyways and more trash everywhere. Can anyone else who lives in the neighborhood weigh in? I am concerned that things won't get better as most neighbors I speak to seem so blinded by their old school love of the neighborhood that they refuse to look around at how it's now not a great place to raise their kids. The local park is crumbling down too. I am all for compassion for people on the street, but it's gotten so that we change our routes depending on how likely we'll be to get harassed on certain strips. Last year a member of the community OD'ed in broad daylight in front of McDonalds as kids were eating inside. I am not a pearl clutcher and have lived in less safe places — I just don't think it's unreasonable not to want to walk my 3 year old past someone clearly high on heroin to get to school. I don't want to move so I'm really mourning this. It's insane to me that the brownstones here are $2-5M easily yet it's a dump now. Anyone else in Dupont concerned? What is happening?[/quote]

I left 20 years ago when I had my kids OP. It has never been a great place for kids. Dupont Circle + Adams Morgan have always been adult, not kids' playgrounds. However Adams Morgan is so precious and full of itself now...I preferred the old trashiness (pizza wrappers everywhere) for the new (hipsters everywhere). With that being said, the problems you describe are the ones our rulers would love to see everywhere--rather than address them, they just want to have more and spread it all around (equity). I hope you bring attention to it and can begin some kind of call to action. What you describe is unpleasant for anyone, not just kids.[/quote]

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