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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The council just voted to declare homelessness a “protected class”. San Francisco here we come. 
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What are you talking about? No it hasn't.[/quote]
You apparently do not follow the news. Enjoy the descent. 
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I'm hoping my unhoused personal injury clients still have my business card. Now I can sue business owners for refusing entrance/service to the unhoused as well as property owners refusing to consider renting to them.[/quote]
This is the future folks. It is now illegal in DC to deny a person who is caked in feces, erratically yelling and scaring off your paying customers from entering your establishment. You will also not be able to call the police to remove unruly homeless people from your establishment as trespassing.

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Does anyone have any details on this! [/quote]

Someone literally spewed their poorly imaginative 💩 on DCUM and now you're asking for details of their poorly imaginative 💩?  I sure hope it's a Friday [/quote]
One purpose of adding homelessness as a protected class is to protect the rights of the homeless to public accommodation. That includes commercial establishments such as hotels, restaurants, department stores, etc.

Some may think that’s a good thing. Others may not. But that is indeed the thing that’s happened. [/quote]

Commercial establishments are for commerce.  They only exist to serve PAYING customers.  No pay, plus you harm revenue, GTFO.  Period.[/quote]

Does our City Council not understand this? I think it's funny that instead of building and managing day sheletrs, the Council has vans drop the homeless off at libraries every day and for the rest of the spillover is content to let Starbucks and Whole Foods provide the "services" they won't. [/quote]

And it shouldn't be the job of DCPL to babysit the homeless either.  Face it, many of the homeless don't just have a lack-of-housing issue, they have drug issues, mental health issues, etc.  To deal with that, many of DC's homeless need 24h wraparound services.  And, DC should start taking legal action against those who ship their homeless here.  DC should not be the dumping grounds of the nation.  And if I had my way, they shouldn't be given the choice, if they absolutely refuse drug treatment and rehab to be functional member of society again, bust them for those drugs and give them 3 hots and a cot in prison and mandatory program to get cleaned up of the illegal drug habit, either that or take them to a bus station and pay the fare to vacate themselves back home to where they came from or to a jurisdiction more amenable to their way of life.[/quote]

I made a similar comment just now. You say these things as if they are easy to accomplish, but they are not. Please, if you have time, go volunteer in schools (where children of unhoused people or people dealing with substance use disorders are enrolled) or at legal aid, or whatever organization suits your schedule. Seeing what these people have gone through, and are going through, and what life for them is like, will be a paradigm shifter. Pulling yourself up by the bootstraps is the cruelest lie we've been told, and all you need to do is peel a single layer of the onion to see how near impossible it is for people dealing with these issues to pull themselves out of it.  [/quote]

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