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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The housing should come with daycare vouchers and job interviews - there are tons of businesses of Wisconsin ave. These homeless parents could work at while their kids are in school/daycare and start the move to independence. [/quote]
Independence? Are you sure they want that?
Independence or in their case low paying jobs will bring them a rental in the slums and bad schools they'll have to move to. Once they relocate to Wisconsin Ave they have every incentive to stay jobless and produce more kids. [/quote]

Please tell us about all these wonderful incentives to "produce" kids.  And could you tell me where these "slums" are located?  I can't seem to find any of them on Google Maps.[/quote]
Free daycare, free social services, relative safety, good schools vs life in SE DC. 
Take the woman with four kids from a recent WaPo article and imagine she is relocated from her hotel to the shelter on Wisconsin Ave. What would be her motivation to get a job as a cashier at Safeway given that childcare is provided by the city? So she can leave the shelter and go where? And pay for childcare how? But if she pops out couple more kids she can stay at the shelter for the next 10 years. After which uprooting kids would be soo insensitive and she'll end up staying there until the kids get through high school. 
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Out of curiosity, if your neighbor in your affluent area has a couple of kids, do you say that she "pops out a couple more kids" too? Your language shows me your sensitivity to the humanity of other people.[/quote]
If you can support your kids---it's called "having them" or "adding/starting family". If not--it's "popping them out". [/quote]

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