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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole plan is bizarre:

For 120 days --

Put children in a school in a neighborhood where their parents are unlikely to afford the rents when they gain independence. What happens to the kids?

For 120 days--

Encourage people to work in the local fast food in said neighborhood. How do the parents keep the job once they move?

For 120 days--

Emphasize closeness to metro which is an expensive way for homeless/near homeless to travel.

Why not put the money towards low income housing/mixed development that offers a more permanent lifetime to these families AFTER homelessness? Why not have everyone consolidated for the 120 days in an efficient facility with buses to schools, jobs and training programs?  Why use primo real estate when there is so much more value in not blowing the money on rent/mortgage?  We are not talking about your/their dreamhouse. We are talking about a three month stay for families to get stabilized. Put it out on that road by the arboretum.  It's on a major causeway, and buses/shuttles could run. Many services could be provided on site.

People are currently in hotels in MD. I would call homeless hotels small, intimate 'satellite locations'. How's that working out for those families? They all moving to independence?  There's your case study on how random, scattered 'intimate' locations 'improve' matters.

They couldn't get DC General right, they couldn't get hotels right, but somehow blowing a ton of money on the housing itself with IMPROVE the services provided? [/quote]

They couldn't get DC General right so their answer is that they are creating 8 mini DC Generals while not at all addressing the underlying issues of why they couldn't get DC General right in the first place.  Brilliant.[/quote]

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