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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess I just don't really understand your concern. DC General is a family shelter. Single adults do not get placed there. The other family shelters I can think of in DC are also family shelters where single adults do not get placed. They are two separate systems. Families seeking emergency shelter go through the Virginia Williams Center (http://www.dccfh.org/programs/housing/virginia-williams-family-resource-center), where they are screened for eligibility, including residency. If a single adult shows up there, they will be directed to another program.

Bowser's plans say specifically that it's FAMILY SHELTERS over and over again, with the stated exception of the shelter in Ward 2 every time. Single adult females will be placed there or Harriet Tubman or Nativity or another program specifically for women. Single adult males will be referred to 801 East Shelter or La Casa or another program that is specifically for men. [/quote]

I don't really understand why you're missing what I'm saying.  The other posters and I are not the first people to have raised this question about exactly who will be placed in the shelters that Bowser is pushing, and specifically whether there will be single men in any of them.  So it just stands to reason that if these shelters will [i]not[/i] house single men, then Bowser's team would have solved the confusion by specifically saying so.  The fact that she's has not definitively made it clear that only families will be sited there suggests that she's considering some sort of bait and switch.[/quote]

The legislation itself, at least as introduced, explicitly lists each facility and the number of families it will house. Moreover, the new shelters are meant to replace DC General which only houses families. Obviously, nothing can prevent plans from being changed in the future. I suspect that it would be impossible to guarantee that no single man would ever be housed in one of the new shelters. But, that is clearly not the plan at this point.

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Original PP here. This is my point exactly. PPs want to know who will be housed there. Plan says "Families will be housed there." PPs say, "But how do we know for sure?" I don't have an answer to that question. You don't know for sure. All you know is that at this point is that the plan right now is to create multiple smaller family shelters. If the plan was more nebulous and simply said "smaller shelters throughout the city" I would be skeptical, but I haven't seen that language anywhere in any conversation. The 16 mentions of families in the original press release wasn't the Bowser administration trying to be cute. It was them describing the specific purpose of the plan they were announcing. That you for whatever reasons do not understand that or are not willing to accept it is confusing to me.[/quote]

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