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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Relax everyone. The spot where the shelter may be is still a patch of grass.

Your true colors are showing. [/quote]

The biggest threat to a shelter being built at that location would be the crony deal that underlies it.[/quote]

Yeah, I heard that the developer would make some outrageous amount in rent. And I also heard that the Glover Park site was identified at the last minute because Bowser needed a site in Ward 3 and the other one they were looking at (I think maybe in the Murch district) couldn't be secured quickly enough to meet the Mayor's announcement. WOuld love someone in the know to post some details of the facts.  [/quote]

Jeff posted something in the previous thread on this topic noting that the two other Ward 3 properties were in Tenleytown. I'm pretty sure they were properties owned by AU. He also indicated that the tentative expense per unit was estimated to be something in the vicinity of $3,000. For that price, you could rent apartments for these families in various buildings throughout the entire ward. That's a lot of money going to developers, not the homeless. [/quote]

I keep hearing about all these apartments which cost less.  DC can't get multi-unit property owners to accept vouchers for rapid rehousing or transitional housing, so why do you think that they would jump at the chance to have homeless families as tenants for a three-month period?  [/quote]

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