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[quote=Anonymous]Last I checked, there weren’t any residency requirements. That’s why there are more people in the voucher program now than the entire homeless population a decade ago. And the housing voucher program is just one of the many programs D.C. has for the homeless (for example, the people living in the Cathedral Heights shelter are in a different program). All of the money D.C. has put into this over the past decade has only increased the homeless population. Is this surprising? If you tell homeless people, addicts, and criminals that if they come to D.C., they’ll get expensive apartments, no strings attached, seemingly for life, why wouldn’t they come?

What’s insane is that D.C. voters keep voting for this. Goulet’s opposition was pretty mild, saying that if we just dump these people into apartments with no plan to rehabilitate them, they’re not going to get better. He was painted as a racist by the other candidates in the race, the City Paper, and the professional activist crowd, and Ward 3 voters rejected him.

The prevailing political climate in the city seems to be “take everything you can from people who are gainfully employed, give it all to criminals and drug addicts.” The voucher program even specifies that’s who the program is for.[/quote]

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