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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What I have learned from this thread is that there is no way I would ever move to upper NW and that I hope that I do not actually know any of you people in real life. This has been one of the more depressing threads in recent memory.

Mayor of city with chronic family homelessness proposes closing the no-longer-fit-to-be-a-hospital shelter and proposes 8 new shelters, spread out over 1 city. Conversation on DCUM devolves into whether or not people deserve help if they are poor and have multiple children.[/quote]

+1.

Every now and then, a thread pops up that really gives me a dim view of people in DC.  Last year, it was thread where essentially people were saying that certain Wards "deserve" more city services than other Wards and that if you were not rich enough to live in these one of the certain wards, too bad for you.  This thread echoes that mindset.  People seem to forget that some of you or even people you know are one more recession away from being in a similar boat.

Honestly, you have to be a stone cold fool to believe that the majority of residents want to raise their children in a homeless shelter or transitional housing.  Such that they would have more children just to stay there?  Come the fvck on!   Frankly, some of you need to get out and actually meet some working poor people who are trying to make things work.  Thing is many of you are around them everyday - at Giant, on the bus or train, etc.  But God forbid that they house these people in your neighborhood in a major city.

Poor people who work or are striving to work get the biggest shaft in this country.

A Ward 1 resident - by choice - who has met some nice and interesting people living in the shelters and who realizes that they want the same thing for their kids that I want for mine. [/quote]

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