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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Greater Greater Washington had a post yesterday on the former Hebrew Home at 11th & Spring that was interesting. Is this site one of the ones under consideration? Not Ward 3, obviously.
http://greatergreaterwashington.org/post/30508/the-first-two-efforts-to-turn-petworths-hebrew-home-into-housing-failed-will-the-third-time-be-/[/quote]

Thanks for posting this, PP.  Why on earth would Bowser not be open to this?  It seems near perfect for her homeless shelter needs.  Indeed, one of the linked articles says neighbors were clamoring at an ANC meeting in 2014 for the District to renovate the building as a shelter ("YIMBY"!).  But it failed in part because Bowser is opposed.  What's really going on here?  Are we really trying to provide shelter for the homeless, or is there some other secret goal of this project?

[quote]In the fall of 2010, the DC Department of Human Services proposed using the site to shelter families instead of sending them to DC General. That plan would have cost an estimated $800,000 to renovate the building for 74 families. However, the site was removed from consideration due to then-Councilmember [u]Muriel Bowser's concern that the immediate area had an "inordinate amount of group homes" and two homeless shelters within a two-block radius of the site[/u].

More recently, efforts in 2014 to redevelop the historic structure and the Robeson School (which sits immediately adjacent, to the east) resulted in a plan to create approximately 200-units of housing with 90% designated as affordable .... Development stalled again, however, .... Moreover, [u]Bowser expressed reservations about the plan being weighted so heavily toward affordable housing[/u]. 
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