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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the PP. However, if you are charging all D.C. Residents with culture change and breaking the cycles of dysfunction (a worthy goal but a little paternalistic to suggest that Ward 3"is responsible for Ward XYZ) my question is where is the money best spent. Yes, I think most homeless families in DC live in deep dysfunction. I think they need basic, well managed services that meet the needs of as many as possible, not lattes. And if we have money left over it should go to the schools (including charters like KIPP) and mixed income housing in new developments (like the waterfront) that will help lift these families out of poverty. The fact that Bowsers original plan was rushed though, 600 million over 30 years, left the city with nothing, and would reach a fraction of people who need it -shows me she is not serious about deploying city resources (my tax dollars) well. Tweaking and revising a ridiculous plan does not satisfy me. The plan should be scrapped and start over.[/quote]

"Not lattes???"

Sorry but all you want scrapped is the proposed locations.  I am quite certain your conversion to advocacy for the homeless is about as recent as the announcement of Bowser's plan.   Come to think of it, if putting a homeless shelter in your neighborhood causes you to be concerned about solving the larger problem, then it is a brilliant move.  You care when you have to live next to them.[/quote]

Different poster responding. Where's your neighborhood? How close to the planned shelter locations? If it's not within a couple blocks of one, then I think you're a hypocrite for making that accusation. It's easy to talk big about how people should take the burden when you're not one of the ones doing the lifting.

Fwiw, I live miles away from any of the planned sites, so I'm not directly impacted either. But I'm sympathetic to the concerns of each side. Your dismissiveness of one side's legitimate concerns are what makes this hard to solve.  If people like you and Bowser had tried to work with the neighborhoods in all the wards, and tried to address their concerns with good planning rather than dismiss them with insults, you wouldn't see this kind of opposition. [/quote]

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