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Reply to "Bowser Spreads the Wealth opens homeless shelters in each DC ward"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Homelessness in DC has been going up by double digit percentages in the last couple of years, whereas it's been going down in other major US cities... That's a problem.[/quote] Family homelessness has increased 40% since 2010. Housing prices have gone up at a similar rate during that time period. Wages have not moved much and there are not hundreds of new living wage jobs being created. You do the math. [/quote] That still doesn't really account for the big difference between DC vs. other cities. Yeah, housing goes up, and wages have been stagnant. But that begs the question, why stay? I grew up dirt poor, and we moved when we couldn't make it. The reason for staying can't be because of family, as the families obviously can't help either, or they wouldn't be stuck in poverty. There are a lot of communities with a lower cost of living than DC. DC isn't much of a hub for jobs for unskilled or semiskilled labor either.[/quote]
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