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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure I know when DC was this pristine city? I've lived in VA (but not DC) for most of my life, and I remember when large parts of DC were considered dangerous. And maybe because I'm white when other white people said that it was code for "black," but I do remember when you could be walking down one street and it was totally fine, and then you'd turn the corner and be like....I feel very unsafe.

What I don't understand is why Arlington has virtually no homeless people that I see and DC has so many, when the two locations are so close. My assumption is that DC is allowing homeless people to have access to a lot of things that Arlington isn't. Or there would be way more homeless people there.

It reminds me of Giuliani (before he went totally Trump crazy). A lot of people hated him for making it very difficult to be visibly homeless in NYC. But large parts of NYC that had been pretty gross and not tourist friendly became much nicer. Yes. It was bad for people who were already hurting, and I don't have an answer for that. But it was better for the city as a whole. And I hate Giuliani. But I saw NYC before and after, and maybe after was more "plastic" and Times Square got "Disneyfied," but after was better.

I look at what's happening in SF, and it's not good. The last time I visited there was right before the pandemic and I was pretty shocked. I felt unsafe in some pretty touristy areas of the city. And I'm not clutching my pearls. I have lived in big cities. But there were a lot of people around who were obviously homeless but also obviously either mentally ill or on drugs or both.

I'm a Dem because I don't like the religious right, Trump, the pro-lifers, etc....all the moral crap Republicans want to shove down my throat. My more liberal friends are horrified when I suggest that DC should stop making it easy to be visibly homeless because they say...well...what are those people supposed to do? We have an obligation to help them. And I agree with that. But I don't think the answer is people creating tent cities. I don't know what the answer is, but I don't think what's going on now is the answer.

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