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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Right. But only one of the locations is immediately adjacent to a residential neighborhood, across from a preschool and surrounded by multiple small businesses trying to stay afloat.   It’s a completely inappropriate location, other than for sticking it to the man.[/quote]

But we will never know how the city selected the sites as they will never be transparent with their selection criteria.[/quote]

Capitol Skyline is also in a residential neighborhood and has a private school on the next block. There are many businesses within a 1-2 block radius of it.

I wonder if the issue with using city-owned sites is that they wanted people to have private bathrooms. The Ward 6 family shelter is ready to operate but DHS has postponed moving families in. Since DHS refused to build the shelter with private bathrooms for each family (even though they were repeatedly asked to do so by the ANC, homeless advocates, and others at public meetings) and instead most rooms share a bathroom between two families, it might not be a good place to quarantine people.

On the other hand, it might make sense to put people in hotels while they are awaiting test results and then move to congregate quarantine facilities like the Ward 6 shelter after that. I'm not sure that using the convention center makes much sense though...DC would have to buy or rent beds, people might disturb each other, would there be TVs or other things to do? Hotels do have certain advantages because they're already set up for people to live there. The convention center would also charge for rental, I'd think.

Could DC rent Providence hospital? Too bad they tore down DC general already.[/quote]

they should move these families in, but leave one room empty between each family, so only one per bathroom. What a waste! Total dumbasses and money wasters.[/quote]

Insulting to dumbasses.[/quote]

That’s no way to refer to DC’s mayor.  [/quote]

“Dumbass” is simply inaccurate.

More like “corrupt dumbass”?[/quote]

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