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[quote=Anonymous]I’ve worked at the same downtown office for 20 years.  The visible homeless in the parks downtown have definitely increased.  I personally think the invisible homeless are more tied to the dearth of affordable housing.  The visible homeless (the ones you see in tents on a busy sidewalk or sleeping on a bench) have different problems.  The opioid epidemic is definitely part of it.  I think the closure of some large DD institutions such as diversion of most of st Elizabeth to other uses, closure of DC  general shelter, etc.  how many people remember the enormous housing projects that surrounded the whole area that is now nationals park?  Those were all closed in the 2003–05 time frame.  They were pretty awful looking and I think basically an open air drug market but obviously provided housing for a LOT of people at least some of which probably did not have the capacity to maneuver the housing market even if they got the housing subsidies they were promised.

Today there was a guy strolling down the middle of 15th street entirely naked except for a diaper.  Affordable housing is not his biggest problem, I think.

We need a complement of different kinds of solutions.  
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