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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ward 3 folks love to argue that they live on the city and not in the suburbs.  Well, now you’re really a part of us.  Welcome!

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It’s remarkable how 30 years of progress could be dismantled so quickly. [/quote]

If Bowser had made a campaign pledge to spread crime "equitably" to all areas of the District, then she could announce "Mission Accomplished!"[/quote]
Ward 3 “burden sharing” for equity has been a pretty explicit policy priority throughout Bowser’s time in office. Not sure why folks decided not to pay attention.[/quote]

Do you think Bowser would have been transparent and said "I'm going to spread violent crime, thefts, disorder, vagrancy and other social problems to your neighborhood and then keep raising your taxes to pay for the "burden sharing"?[/quote]
I’m honestly curious what people thought Bowser was doing. It’s not like she was hiding anything.

There was the 2016 shelter plan. The 2018 affordable housing production goals. DHCA in 2019 intentionally setting policy to over-estimate fair market rent for housing choice vouchers with the double whammy of undercutting rent control. All of this stuff individually and in totality was done with the express purpose of increasing Ward 3 “burden sharing”.

People can just read the reports themselves.
https://housing.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/housingdc/page_content/attachments/Housing%20Equity%20Report%2010-15-19.pdf

When they see talk of “fair share” and projections that put 2/3 of new affordable housing in wards 2, 3 and 4, it’s just not clear how people could not understand what this meant. What do people think they are talking about when they see the world “vibrant”?

It was all extremely transparent, if you bothered to pay attention.[/quote]

Does “vibrant” mean vouchers?  We thought it meant Urbanist, sustainable, gentle dense-mixed use that also yields affordable housing.  [/quote]
According to the Comp Plan that I am sure that you supported, it meant:

“locating special needs housing more equitably so that all neighborhoods accept their fair share”

Where “special needs housing” includes group homes and housing for “homeless, troubled youth, elderly, foster children, ex-offenders”.

That’s the vibrant, mixed use urbanism that folks fought for and congratulations, you got it.
https://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/op/Vision%20for%20Inclusive%20CIty%202004.pdf
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W3 already had PIW, multiple shelters and multiple halfway houses. [/quote]

Those don’t count for meeting the mayor’s ambitious, equitable and affordable housing goals.[/quote]

#Ward3ForAll.  Slay.  [/quote]

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