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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Liz Nagy filed to run from Chevy Chase. [/quote]

Now that’s certainly a choice…[/quote]

What’s her deal?[/quote]

She said publicly in a meeting that people who lived in apartments needed mental health services or something along those lines, may have been a slip up but given her general attitude towards people in apartments and apartments in general doubtful. [/quote]

She is likely referring to section 8 being used to house mentally unstable and those with degenerate behavior or even prior criminal history in previously nice apartment blocks in the NWDC.  This is a well known issue and it generated quite a bit of media attention in the past when rent control or other long term residents were driven out by the masses of new section 8 tenants.  Buildings landlords and management companies were getting a lot more rent for these tenants at the expense of a taxpayer than what market naturally dictated.  This also helped the to get rid of long term elderly tenants and rent control tenants who found their QOL ruined to the point of having to move. [/quote]

The problem with your thesis is the context. She said these things as it relates to the Chevy Chase redevelopment which is for some affordable housing units which are not section 8 or homeless shelter beds. So the false assertion of needing wraparound services for the working middle class is simply misplaced and offensive. [/quote]

Or a grift.  "mental health services" tends to be a wormhole where money disappears without any accountability or having to show the results.  Every big city spends enormous funds on this, yet the problems tend to compound.  NYC former mayor De Blowsio's wife supposedly had 800mil allocated for mental health improvement, and this money had made zero difference.

Other than creating some jobs for people who have careers in social services and mental healthcare field, I am suspecting larger sums of this money just get siphoned into the deeper pockets.

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We spend far more on the military and yet wars aren't over.

We spend tons on the police but every year there's still concerns about criminals.

Do you see how that's a bad argument?[/quote]

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