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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People concerned with bike lanes and walkability, as I am, need to recognize that people are more inclined to rely on cars when crime is spiking.  I've heard several people tell me they now drive to the Giant at Cathedral Commons because they do not want to walk through the strung out panhandlers in front.[/quote]

And park in a parking garage? I’m much more creeped out by parking garages than walking in a public area. This is a canard. [/quote]

Different poster but I've heard the same. I also know people who moved out of DC in part because of the scene outside Giant, woman followed more than once, etc. Some people drive to close in Bethesda stores who previously walked to Cathedral Commons. Walking around Forest Hills on the weekend does not feel as safe and the frequent sirens are unnerving and stressful. I believed people in W7 & W8 who described the toll crime takes, the city has got to take a different stance. And that means AG and USAO prosecuting, Council rolling back some of their legislative excess and Congress providing additional needed funds AND oversight to the federal players in our CJ "ecosystem" as Bowser likes to call it. We need a reset or eventually we may end up with another control board as tax revenue craters. Downtown is a ghost town, all that CRE revenue used to cover a lot of bike lanes, pickleball courts and similar.

I don't see how Housing First as implemented by the District with the vast overpayments, despite HUD audit, is feasible financially long term. A lot of the recipients are quite young, but have  PSH vouchers. Public housing is very expensive. Private public housing is unaffordable. And that is before you consider the spillover impacts as no one has frankly done since Chris Geldart. [/quote]

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