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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Challenge anyone who has an issue with people experiencing homeless living in tents in DC to try a couple of things: 1) Go visit one of the DC shelters (a non- Ward 3 one) and see if you would like living in one. They are essentially like prisons ( you cannot even leave or enter past 9:00 pm in some of them- how are you supposed to work your second shift job with those restrictions? ) 2) Go to the DCHA website and try to navigate the registration for a housing voucher on your phone or on a public library computer - it’s an incredibly difficult process 3) Try to apply for SNAP and TANF on your phone, then find the monthly allotment for a single person and try to feed yourself on that allotment without using your kitchen (many homeless people are living in motels without kitchens)… 4) Have a 15 minute conversation with a homeless person, they are human beings and deserve dignity and safety.

A tent provides more safety and freedom than the shelters. The public assistance systems that DC has is like a Kafkaesque nightmare where one is pushed from one agency to another so panhandling can actually give you a better chance of having some income versus the “public safety net.”

Most people who live in tents don’t want to live there- it’s just the best option they have of a host of terrible options. It’s really astonishing to me with so much wealth, education and power in this area, how many people only care about their own personal comfort versus the health of the community as a whole.

Donations to non-profits serving the poor are down while the incomes of the top income earners are up. The lack of concern for and compassion for the poor in this country is deeply troubling-the only hope I do see is in the young kids (12-22). We can learn a lot from them and I hope they don’t lose their empathy as they get older.

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So your opinion is housing is worse than living in a tent on public land and defecating in the streets. You progressives have lost your mind. [/quote]

At no point in their post did they say anything even remotely resembling "housing is worse than living in a tent on public land."  In fact, they said the exact opposite, that housing is very difficult for them to get and a tent is a worse option but the only option for many.

I think the only person who seems to have lost their mind is you. You clearly just made up an argument that you wanted to hear with no basis in reality. [/quote]

NP. Since your public school education failed you, the OP compared the housing to prison. It is generally accepted that prison is extremely undesirable.

Nice gaslighting though.[/quote]

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