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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I amazed at the amount of tents by the Whitehurst Freeway. I feel like I have never seen it this bad in the 20 years I’ve been here.[/quote]

Actually the tents there are a LOT like it was 20+ years ago[/quote]

Actually no. In 2003 there weren’t filthy tents on every triangle park and overpass and traffic circle and underpass in the godd6m city[/quote]

True. And gentrification of previously more affordable areas and the loss of housing due to investors weren’t the issues that they are today.  
Mental illness and how it’s handled is a concern, as is drug abuse, but so is the loss of affordable housing and living- wage jobs.  [/quote]
I don’t think you have a firm understanding if who these people that live in tents are and where they come from. There are almost no homeless families in DC.  These are not formerly employed people in low income housing that had bad luck and fell on hard times. There are enough available shelter beds to house everyone. Nearly universally all of these people are men with severe mental illness and/or drug addiction that refuse to stay in a shelter. A significant portion of these men were formerly incarcerated. And a large portion of them are from other places that gave them one-way bus tickets to DC. These are people who choose to live in tents for the freedom to use drugs or because they refuse mental health treatment.

Sure more jobs and affordable housing would be good as it will help get homeless families stabilized more quickly, instead of spending unnecessary time in shelters and hotels. But this is not that. [/quote]

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