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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When did Union Station become a de facto homeless shelter?  I returned on the train the other evening, and there must have been 100-150 people on the floor in the corridors and sleeping on the front benches.  It wasn't a cold night, either.  I support shelters, but train stations and public libraries were not intended to be those shelters.[/quote]

They should've just converted Tenley Library into a shelter, it's already one practically right now. [/quote]

Didn't DC originally want to build a condo building on top of the Tenley library, part of which would have been built in the Janney playground?  Too bad that couldn't have been a mixed-use multifamily building to include homelsss families.[/quote]

No, it would have been on top of the library. Wasted opportunity not to have those taxpayers - property and income tax, in the city coffers.[/quote]

Would have been a good opportunity to integrate low income and homeless housing with more upscale dwellings.  But Janney is quite full, so the homeless kids would have to be bussed elsewhere to school, like to Eaton or Hearst.[/quote]

Yep nope or homeless children at Janney! Couldn't have that![/quote]

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