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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The housing should come with daycare vouchers and job interviews - there are tons of businesses of Wisconsin ave. These homeless parents could work at while their kids are in school/daycare and start the move to independence. [/quote]

Conservative here. I fully agree. And should also come with some kind of psychological counseling and job training/educational enhancements. If you are going to provide aid, do it right so you can launch people into independence. Those that don't comply? You have case to remove the children from the parent(s) and find them better circumstances. [/quote]

I disagree with removing children from the parents, but there should be robust, coordinated wraparound services and supports for the kids, counseling, stress and anger management, educational enrichment, life skills training, et cetera so that the kids don't end up as dysfunctional as the parents and that the cycles of poverty can be broken.  Also with regard to vouchers I think there need to be some checks and balances there - daycares are horrendously expensive in the DC area, they take advantage of the high cost of living and working parents, it seems like a ripe opportunity for daycare operators to fleece the city with overpriced offerings.  I would want to know that there is robust oversight and maybe that any social services and counseling and support services be coordinated with and conducted at the daycare with some of their function being to significantly reduce the rate charged by the daycare as well as helping provide oversight by being extra eyes and ears that can report on any problems or abuses at the childcare.  But, given DC's history this is probably far too idealistic thinking...  I might also suggest that families be given free access to, counseled on, and strongly encouraged to use long term birth control, so that they might have a better chance at getting some stability rather than being faced with yet another child to care for, making their burden even greater.[/quote]

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