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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Article in the DC City Paper today discusses how homeless advocacy groups are now criticizing Bowser's proposal too.  Among their complaint, they say Bowser and her team should focus on sites already owned by DC Government, as opposed to those ridiculously overpriced lease deals.

Bowser's team has claimed in the past that there aren't any suitable city-owned sites.  That's just BS.  Here is a map.  http://geospatial.dcgis.dc.gov/DCProperty/maplocatesearch.aspx

If you click on the "i" button for information, and zoom in to any part of the city and box in a handful of dots, you can easily get a listing with info on a variety of buildings.  Lots of them are DC city parks or traffic circles, but I know some of the ones in areas I frequent are buildings sitting vacant, or are used only infrequently when the city rents them out for private functions, so they should be available for renovation into residential sites for the homeless.

Why is Bowser leasing more property when DC already has dozens - maybe even hundreds - of empty buildings it owns?[/quote]

Do you have a link for the article?  [/quote]

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