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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BTW you keep asking for evidence of things - how about some evidence that a shelter drags down property values?

I just skimmed a bunch of articles exploring what brings down property values and found not a single one that referenced homeless shelters - lousy schools, vacant properties, too many rentals, crime and even strip clubs show up on the lists but I didn't find a single one that included a homeless shelter.

So the burden is on you at this point - your being fearful of something is not reason enough to oppose it.[/quote]

The management company that runs Cathedral Commons is pretty upset about the homeless shelter.  It's not what they signed up for when they bought in as investors.  The shelter iikely will affect future leasing prices and the town houses directly across from the shelter, which C-C is trying to rent for $8000/month.[/quote]

I'm totally sympathetic to them. The way DC treats investors in the city--as if they are here to simply subsidize every madcap San Franciscan social scheme--is pretty deplorable. Unless you are a crony, you are treated with what seems to me airy condescension and assumption that you are simply here out of altruism, rather than to run the businesses a thriving city needs. And then we wonder why we have supermarket deserts etc.[/quote]

That people are calling it the "Cathedral Commons homeless shelter" probably drives the investor-operators crazy.[/quote]

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