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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What’s going to go into Capitol One arena??[/quote]

Mixed use. DC can use the business taxes to subsidize housing. Win win.[/quote]

But the immediate and overwhelming need in DC is to provide homes for the unhoused, which is what should be built where the Capitol One arena now stands.[/quote]

DC currently houses more people than were homeless when the program started. As CA begins to test for drug use before benefits and has made involuntary commitment easier, what is to keep the vagrants from all over the country from flocking here? More so than is ALREADY the case? Most jurisdictions will transport one way for free to shrink their numbers. What is to be done to stabilize people and get them on a path to being self supporting? Housing First is not that. [/quote]

Write your council members today and demand that Washington, DC follow San Francisco's lead and start drug testing for certain benefits.  If the SF People's Republic can do it, what's the reason to hesitate here?[/quote]

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