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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]A) terrible, and my sympathy to the victim, the bystanders AND the librarians
B) Why do we allow libraries to be used as day shelters?  [b]At the very least, clear them for after school hours. It is so unfair to these kids![/b]Can the city not incentivize shelters to rotate some staying open by day? or, golly, OPEN day shelters?? Why do we only have one of these:[/b]

Downtown Day Services Center  
The Center offers downtown day services to individuals experiencing homelessness. The Center utilizes a Housing First method to move individuals into housing by connecting them with supportive services.

The Center is operated by the DowntownDC Business Improvement District (BID) with support from the District of Columbia Department of Human Services and services from Pathways to Housing DC and HIPS.

Hours Open: Monday through Friday from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm; Saturday from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm

Meals: Daily from 11:00 am - 1:00 pm; during weekend lunch, hygiene items, and PPE are available at Vermont Avenue, NW while supplies last.

Services Available: Showers, laundry, restrooms, phone and computers, emergency clothing, vital records, medical, harm reduction, and housing guidance. Saturday services are available: Showers, laundry, and meals.

Restrooms & Showers  
Laundry & Emergency Clothing 
Phone Charging & Computers 
The District Department of Employment Services  
District Department of Health  
District Department of Motor Vehicles  
Economic Security Administration  
Unity Health Care  
Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless 
For more information, contact 202-383-8810 or e-mail: Center@DowntownDC.org.

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Are you suggesting not allowing certain people into a public library?  How exactly are you going to check?  What if they are homeless but not visibly so?  Using a computer to apply for jobs?

Having more and better service centers that help them with all the services at that day center would be great.  Put one of those in every ward?[/quote]

You could not allow them to wheel all their belongings in. You could put time limits on bathrooms and blacklights so no one can find their veins to shoot up. You could station library police who could call in 311 wellness checks on any disturbed behavior. You could ask shelters and the city to not run vans and buses  to the libraries in the mornings as I've heard they have done at times. Oh, imagine this--you could create options for the homeless: how about... reading rooms for the homeless with donuts, coffees and computers. They LOVE computer banks.  You could have the vans run straight from the shelters to the reading rooms. Yes, it would take imagination and $. We seem to spend plenty of the latter on social issues, and completely lack the former.[/quote]

If you’re a parent, don’t let your kids sit next to homeless dudes at the computers.

And there should be dedicated areas where only kids & caregivers are allowed. [/quote]

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