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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems like MD's republican congressional reps are trying to block DC's ability to use its own funds to lure the Commanders. Just heard an interview with Andy Harris talking about how DC shouldn't be able to have the billion dollars currently blocked from use to fund  a stadium [/quote]

For the the first time ever, I agree with Andy Harris: D.C. should not use this particular billion dollars to fund a stadium. But that's because we should be able to use those billion dollars to fund the operating expenses they were budgeted to cover.

I'd also prefer if D.C. spent $0 to fund a stadium — I think the Commanders' owners are quite capable of paying the full cost themselves — but I doubt Andy Harris agrees with me on that as a general principal.[/quote]

Josh Harris is paying the full cost of building the stadium.  DC on the other hand is paying the cost to develop the surrounding land, including DPR facilities, bike lanes and infrastructure for the new housing.  Heck, the Anacostia trail expenses in the current budget are part of the deal.

What line item costs in the current proposal do you think DC should not pay?  We're not paying anything for construction of the stadium itself.  That $1 billion is for the "attainable" housing, park facilities and "multi-modal" transportation.[/quote]

Not PP, but even though I don’t know what the number is I’d be happy for DC to at least cut in half the line for “attainable housing”. The mayor already pulled a bait-and-switch a couple blocks away over by the jail and switched the development from mixed to all subsidized housing. If they keep doing that they’re just building future slums. That kind of housing as to be dispersed to keep the area desirable [/quote]

Agreed. We need way more affordable housing in Ward 3. The council should ensure that all affordable housing being built goes in Ward 3 until they have housed their fair share relative to the rest of the city. [/quote]

Look at the daily shootings in Navy Yard due to "affordable housing" and rethink your proposal.[/quote]

Dispersing affordable and public housing is proven to reduce the negative effects of poverty including shootings. "Make the poors shoot each other somewhere else" is despicable but not at all unexpected from the most selfish Ward in the city. [/quote]

There are basically no rigorous studies that support this statement. Spreading low income housing throughout an area does not actually reduce the odds that low income people commit crime. It just spreads out the crime to make it more evenly distributed. Environmental interventions to reduce criminal behavior are largely ineffective. The only very effective intervention to prevent crime is throwing repeat offenders in jail to prevent them from committing future crimes. Criminal behavior is around 50% genetic and the reality is that that some people are just born to become criminals.
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Sorry, where are the “rigorous studies” that support the claim that “some people are just born to become criminals” especially due to genetics?[/quote]

Twin studies, adoption studies, genome wide association studies. Around 50% of criminal behavior is genetic and the shared environmental component is only around 20%, random environmental components account for the remaining portion. [/quote]

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