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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this is a temporary shelter, where will they go once their time to stay there expires? Back on the street? Because that doesn't sound good for anyone. Or is a permanent "you stay there until you find a job that pays more than X" situation (which at least creates certainty for the families, if not much incentive to look for work because they'd have to be making a lot to make it worth their while to give up free housing).

In any event, I can see the benefit of putting homeless in a nice environment, but (a) how do they pick who gets to stay in the nice Glover Park area and who gets to stay in food desert mess that is Ward 8? and (b) there should be a happy medium between DC General and a really expensive real estate. I am sure the city could find cheaper real estate than in upper Georgetown that is still in a decent location.[/quote]

Very good questions. MY ANSWERS

If this is a temporary shelter, where will they go once their time to stay there expires? AS WITH DC GENERAL, WHAT STARTS AS "TEMPORARY" WILL PROBABLY EVOLVE INTO "PERMANENT." IT'S JUST AN EASY WAY TO MISLEAD NEIGHBORS AND TRY TO PREEMPT POTENTIAL OPPOSITION

-- EXHIBIT A: LOOK UP THE HISTORY OF DC GENERAL.

how do they pick who gets to stay in the nice Glover Park area and who gets to stay in food desert mess that is Ward 8? PATRONAGE 101. YOU SUPPORT THE MAYOR IN XYZ, SHE CAN GET YOUR RELATIVE OR CONSTITUENT A SPOT IN GLOVER PARK

-- EXHIBIT B: DECADES OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT PRACTICES. WELL-EXPLAINED IN THIS WAPO'S ARTICLE "Patronage Persists in D.C."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/10/AR2009081002841.html

there should be a happy medium between DC General and a really expensive real estate? OF COURSE THERE ARE. BUT THEN SHE CAN NOT WIN VOTES BY SHOWING HOW TOUGH SHE IS ON THOSE WEALTHY WHITES[/quote]

-- EXHIBIT C: USE REDFIN TO LOOK UP SIMILAR LOCATIONS AT HALF THE PRICE

Can you please specify the source of your information? That is as long as it is not a bodily orifice better discussed in the Explicit Forum. In that case, you can just said that you made your answers up.
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