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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Saw Gonzaga students handing out care packages and talking to residents in the NoMa encampments today. We can sit behind our screens and complain about how things should be, but nothing is going to change until a quorum of people put actions behind words. [/quote]

They've been really active on that front!  I saw a ton of them doing the same thing a week before.  Lots of volunteers in NoMa and by the Hill are coming to the encampments with wheelbarrows of food, supplies, etc.[/quote]

I'm sure that makes them feel good, but all it does is help/encourage these tent communities to stay, which isn't good for anyone.[/quote]

Agreed.

How does this help the problem long-term?  It just encourages people to stay in these tent communities, which are definitely not what the city should be aiming for as a permanent solution.  [/quote]

Liberal here.  (non-fascist, opposed to the GOP from Reagan through Trump and all in between.  Does that make me a liberal?  Anyway.)

The tent cities are bad.  No one should be living on the streets.  This is 100% Bowser's problem to address and the only way to fix it is to provide services to get people off the streets (carrot) and then require they not camp on the streets (stick.)

Is there any effort out there to do this? [/quote]
Not all that liberal (well, by DC standards, but very "classically" liber) and I agree with you 1000%.  Giving people the "freedom" to camp outdoors is a travesty.[/quote]

You think the problem is that they have too much freedom?  I don't understand.  Do you think that if we had the police kick them out and toss their belongings that they would suddenly clean up, get a job, and rent an apartment??[/quote]

That's what has to be done unless DC decides they want to invest in homeless services. It's easy to talk about offering "services" yet no one in DC is willing to pay the taxes to implement. [/quote]

DC has a budget surplus; there's no need for further taxes.  They also have a money-printing machine in the form of speed cams (and now, according to my neighborhood listserv, stop sign cams)!  Money from that alone would be more than enough to cover homeless services.  But hey, Muriel has her GGW and Reddit armies screaming that everything described above is "part of city life and you're a bigot if you don't like it," essentially doing the work of maintaining the rapidly declining status quo for her.[/quote]

I don't know of any actual human being who thinks that homelessness as an aspect of city life is a reason to not address the underlying issues with compassion.

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