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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]1. NIMBYs oppose housing.
2. Housing becomes more expensive as more people want to live in DC
3. Low-income folks are evicted onto the street.

Simple as that.[/quote].

Hey GGW summer intern!  👋  Your talking points are irrelevant to the underlying causes of street living in DC.

We need to have the courage as a society to admit we were wrong when we upended policy in the Reagan 80s and shut down the involuntary psych residential facilities.  We need to have the balls to reinstate the regulatory structure that facilitated long-term — even permanent— institutionalization of some segments of society.  Then spend everything it takes to staff these hospitals and mandate evidence-based care for these men and women. I know - ha.

The people under the bridge living with incurable schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and lifelong poly substance use disorder that has permanently remodeled their brains (aka, self medicating for the schizophrenia) can. never. live. independent. lives.

This is the population in the tents and stumbling in the middle of Connecticut Ave.  Overwhelmingly so. The striving single mom who just needs a housing voucher for the GGW-endorsed new apartments is an intentional red herring to trigger your guilt.  She has zero to do with tent cities and the public health emergency

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This isn't even remotely true. Like you, I was skeptical of the claim that homelessness was tied to affordability, but after reading up on the literature, it's true. High housing prices and homelessness are undeniably tied together.

Here are some papers if you're interested in learning more:
https://wp-tid.zillowstatic.com/3/Homelessness_InflectionPoints-27eb88.pdf
https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.09380
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-9906.00168?journalCode=ujua20
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2012.00643.x
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