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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People wanted “urban vibrancy” in Ward 3.[/quote]
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W3 already has multiple shelters, several halfway houses and the PIW, kind of the new St. Es. [/quote]

It's never enough for activists. A decade ago D.C. had 5,900 homeless. The activists said they know the perfect solution, just give them all houses, and the problem will go away. Now we have over 8,000 people given free housing with vouchers (well over the number of homeless we had a decade ago), on top of that we have all of the new homeless shelters Bowser built in every Ward in the city, and a ton of other housing programs D.C. has. Yet now we have tent cities we never had in the past.

The response from our progress ANC commissioners? Oh, these plans would have worked, if the city was just allowed to build even [i]more[/i] shelters:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/s_kenny25/status/1727354389336346805[/twitter]

Every time we try a progressive policy and it fails miserably, doing the opposite of what progressives claim, they double down and say "well, if we did twice as much it would have worked." I love how these people love to talk about induced demand when it comes to traffic, but think it's impossible to exist when it comes to giving free stuff to the homeless.

D.C. Crime Facts has some good data, but they usually have some pretty stupid takes about how Ward 3 has to continually give up more as well:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/s_kenny25/status/1727354389336346805[/twitter]

When Councilmembers were underfunding the police in order to shrink the force, they explicitly said they were doing so because higher crime poorer wards were "overpoliced." Now that the number of police are down, people want to take the police from Ward 3 because they say the higher crime poorer wards are now [i]underpoliced[/i]. Beautiful two-step plan to make sure no has any police.

It's not just the police, either; crime prevention programs that target the more high crime areas (see the recent plan to increase cameras, or the previous plan to charge gun offenders federally) are attacked and stopped because activists say it's racist to target these areas. Then when crime prevention methods target richer areas, the activists say it's racist that the poorer areas aren't getting the resources.[/quote]

Homeless, Inc. is a multi-billion dollar industry.

By focusig on housing, the pols will get the kickbacks they always have in DC.

By NOT focusing on mental illness and addiction, they are misery profiteers with a never ending supply of "victims." With the kindling effect it is the height of cruelty not to try to stabilize people as quickly as possible and keep them stable, not doing so GUARANTEES worsening mental illness for that person that will be harder to effectively treat in the future. It's disgusting. [/quote]

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