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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jesus this is in Van Ness?  I left dc 10 years ago but isn’t that a quiet area with expensive homes?[/quote]

It used to be

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/mpd-referred-three-van-ness-apartment-buildings-to-dc-ags-nuisance-property-office/ (not the only 3)

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/the-brandywine-apartments-like-sedgwick-gardens-is-seeing-an-influx-of-voucher-holders/

The Days Inn was housing homeless, after the housing homeless cv program ended. It had 73 police calls in the last 6 months per MPD.

City programs put people in the hotel and in apartment buildings on Connecticut (Wisconsin and Mass too) with little to no screening of a criminal element. They pay 180% of market rate for rentals and after 1 month the unit is permanently out of rent control, it is fantastic  guaranteed money for landlords (who heavily fund Bowser). The WP wrote a few articles on crime at the Sedgewick Gardens due to the same program. How many more could be housed at only market rate? Could that additional money go to services for tenants mentally ill and drug addicted tenants and for security instead of enriching the landlords? In the case of Forest Hills, those buildings used to have a lot of families sending their kids to Murch, Deal and Wilson. [/quote]

I feel bad for the neighborhood (used to live on Connecticut Avenue) but I will say that I am glad to finally see other parts of the city experiencing what Wards 5-8 have been dealing with for years - the DC government used to cram every homeless shelter east of the park. Now maybe you in Upper Caucasia will understand that the homeless problem needs to be addressed, not just pushed out of your area.[/quote]

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