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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess that's what bothers me--these are being treated as nice apartments. It's one thing for me to want the city to put my tax dollars into subsidized 'nice apartments' in the waterfront development or transforming neighborhoods (new developments where everyone buying understands it's designed as mixed income housing to help hardworking people get a leg up in a very cost prohibitive city). It's another thing for my money to be folded into these pseudo shelters which are supposedly designed for temporary stabilization yet seem to require everything a yuppie might search for: near metro! near many parks and playgrounds! great schools!  near Whole Foods! near those red rent a-bikes!  It is as if the location, rather than the services the government provides and requirements the government insists upon --will magically transform people's lives.

What will transform people's lives are a safe, cheerful environment , transparency (goodbye crony politics), efficiency in services - on site centers and shuttles/school buses, and strict requirements for people who can help themselves to do so following a schedule. DC General, if money were put into it, or if it were razed and rebuilt--could easily be these things.

Those who cannot take advantage of the above probably need a hospital bed, not Whole Foods. [/quote]

The DC General site is planned to be one of the core elements of the Hill East neighborhood, a vibrant, upscale, mixed-use community that DC wants to develop.[/quote]

But first they get rid of the homeless.  Those developer friends of Bowsers' clearly don't want them around either.[/quote]

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