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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this is a serious question, there are African-American's living throughout the Ward in every neighborhood. Obviously not is an high of percentages as in other parts of the city, but that is changing, for the better.[/quote]

The rich blacks- a handful. You all trying to stop the shelter bc you dont want the ghetto blacks. [/quote]

Well, obviously people who choose to live in NW DC (black, white or other) are not choosing to live in a poor neighborhood. I highly doubt that anyone is planning to "hang out" with the residents, mostly because I doubt the city is going to manage the shelter well. They could forge work/resident relationships like asking local businesses to open entry level jobs to shelter residents, search for host family partnership, have conditions for residents like maintaining jobs or gainful education or counseling as needed (which would both move them forward  in life and off dependency)- but they won't. The whole thing is opaque. I 've lived next to group homes and subsidized housing in DC where residents sat on the stoop every day and collected checks and the city hasn't indicated this will be any  different, so yeah, some  people will probably feel annoyed by that because it doesn't seem to achieve any discernible positive goal. But primarily I think people who disagree with the plan are disturbed that DC, which could not administer ONE shelter efficiently, has now taken it upon themselves to administer 8 with "free money" from taxpayers . They are also disturbed by the haphazard way the site was chosen. Ward 3 is large and this is not necessarily the best site for another poorly administered city shelter.[/quote]

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