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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]i'm hearing a lot of voices on social media that don't seem to understand that these people ARE offered shelter and/or housing and solutions but they reject them in favor of not living under restrictions. In particular, the people who were living on 17th St in Dupont were active drug users who were not ready to get clean. I don't know what kind of treatment options DC has to offer, but EVERYONE was trying to get them housed and they preferred setting up their camp and getting vemo'ed money from passersby and crapping in the alley by the elementary school. People in DC DO NOT have to be on the streets and everyone is acting like these are healthy people who couldn't make rent and now they are destroying their tents. That is not the correct narrative. The tents I've witnessed are a public health threat.[/quote]

Sounds like you’re not cut out for true city living, then. Still plenty of clean and tidy Mayberrys out there to choose from.[/quote]

Gotta love these posts!

Don’t like having to step over a body to get to your front door? Maybe you’re not cut out for true city living. 
Don’t like homeless people camping out and dealing drugs in front of your house? Maybe you’re not cut out for true city living.
Don’t like having your baby hit in the face with a brick by a deranged vagrant? Maybe you’re not cut out for true city living.

Most people who state this nonsense aren’t even long term property owners in the district. They are also very privileged. Poor people who do not have the resources to move don’t want to live in neighborhoods filled with criminal activity and tent encampments either. [/quote]

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