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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP I go regularly to that petworth library.  They do drugs in the bathrooms and then flood the library main floor.

I don’t feel super comfortable bringing my kids there, so we hustle upstairs to the kids area and hustle them out as fast as I can.  This story really bothered me to my core.  I knew this was coming.

I realize many of these unhoused people have nowhere to go, but isn’t it unfair to our kids and non drug using patrons?  It’s hard enough to live in this city, but yet another resource is taken up by the often very high unhoused population?[/quote]

For three years DC has been peppering the Connecticut Avenue apartment buildings with these folks at incredibly outrageous rates.  On any given day the Cleveland Park commercial strip has a dozen or so of these folks asking for handouts.  A once thriving area has become blighted and feels unsafe.  This is what CM Frumin means when he wants to make Ward 3 more welcoming.  [/quote]

Yes, it has become tiny island of dereliction. I was truly surprised walking through the other day by what CM Frumin has done with the place.  They have also driven out rent control  apartments for middle income workers to turn these units over to illegally overpaid city vouchers, which landlords will continue as long as they make a profit, and then they will run them out and we won't have rent control or housing for the homeless.[/quote]

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