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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you expect to perform such a sea change in the city with regards to job accessibility, which is key for the type of economic success and cultural transformation you want to see in COC, without addressing how people can safely travel this city without a car? You single out bike lanes for ridicule when in fact more bike lanes - or more accurately simply closing most streets to vehicles altogether - is the number one thing that would increase access to jobs and reduce crime and violence.

You are totally clueless how to fix this city. [/quote]

I don't get the "job accessibility" argument.  This city is full of jobs, and businesses are hiring Salvadorans who ride in from Falls Church or wherever else yet people try to claim that black kids in DCHA housing can't find a job.  That's bullshit.  The problem isn't lack of jobs, it's that these kids think jobs are for chumps and that instead they are going to make it by trapping, by rapping, they are living in delusional freecar culture and don't understand regular jobs and hustle.  The sea change needs to happen in the community itself.  Figures in that community need to step up and be disruptors, it's not going to happen from some bunch of eggheads pontificating in Council chambers.[/quote]

1) DCHA has strict rules around illegal activity in their dwellings. You have NO idea what it is like to live in one of their properties when the kids with drugs show up. Suffice it to say, the police get those people out quickly, or as quickly as they can. they are not residents and the residents don't want them there.

2) the "eggheads" are providing money to get opportunity to those "trapping and rapping" kids you are complaining about. They need to see that there is a way out other than turning to crime.

3) there are plenty of white people dealing in drugs and guns all over the country. I don't see people like you complaining about them.[/quote]

OP here and wow you have never spent any time in housing projects, I guess. I have. You have NO idea what you are talking about. Drug use is extremely common, it's just that people know how to hide it or will keep it out of the apartments. It's true DCHA will "get people out quickly" but the way this often works is that some grandmother gets evicted because her grandchild brought illegal drugs into their apartment.

If the progressives on the council were doing such a great job providing "opportunity" to these kids, then why are the issues getting worse? What kinds of opportunities are they providing to unhoused people? People who need mental health treatment?

I feel that the main opportunity provided by the left wing of the DC council is a chance for UMC white progressive in the city to pat themselves on the back for having the right political opinions. That's not something I care about and it doesn't improve my quality of life.[/quote]

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