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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You realize that Bowser's main impetus to close DC General isn't to enhance services for homeless families?  (The mayor has yet to explain how DC will deliver services more capably and efficiently on a vasty decentralized basis when it was incapable of delivering them in one principal location.)  No, the main reason, dear readers, is that Bowser's developer cronies want to redevelop the DC General property for upscale housing and mixed-use.  [/quote]

And why is that necessarily a bad thing?   It is a big piece of under utilized property that hosted a poorly functioning shelter.  Fix the shelter and redevelop the property - seems like a win win to me?[/quote]

Win for the cronies and perhaps a win for the mayor whose nest they feather.  Perhaps not such a win-win for homeowners in McLean Gardens and Idaho Ave.  Whether it's a win for the homeless depends on how well DC scales poor services that it couldn't deliver in one location to eight separate locations.[/quote]

Oh geez another Ward 3 snowflake.

There won't be hordes of homeless over-running McLean Gardens because there is a family homeless shelter a couple of blocks away.

And it is a win for the entire city when new housing gets built.  And bonus for Ward 3 (which always fights new housing) in this case the new housing is on the other side of town so McLean Gardens residents won't need to worry about rubbing shoulders with any newcomers.[/quote]

How close do you live to a shelter, moron?  Easy to ride your high horse when someone else saddles it.[/quote]

I've lived in neighborhoods in DC you would be too terrified to even get out of your car in.

The impact of homeless shelters on surrounding communities has been studied in great depth and there is lots of credible scholarship that they have no negative impact on surrounding communities.

BTW no doubt you are aware that there are other entities serving the homeless in Ward 3 - do you need me to list them for you?

I live around the corner from one that serves the long term homeless, dozens of whom visit every day and they aren't being escorted in police cars or monitored and we've never had a problem.

So yeah I am walking the walk on this one while you cower in fear and ignorance in McLean Gardens and post ignorant screeds on DCUM.[/quote]

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