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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]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[/b].[/quote]

She has pretty much flown planes accross town saying it will only be families.

Look, I dislike Bowser.  Didn't vote for her, don't like her.  Think she's an idiot.  But, we have a huge homeless problem in DC.  When it comes to mothers and children, we all have to help.  I have a shelter in my neighborhood (and am about to get a second one) - you need to take one in your neighborhood.

Suck it up and deal with it.[/quote]

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