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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Aw! Childe Harold and Zorbas! I lived in DuPont Circle for a few years after grad school. I’d never lived right in a city before, and it was SO cool to me that I got to do so.  Spent my weekends at Second Story Books, Kramer Books and Afterwards (those are still there, fortunately) and Books A Million.

[b]The streets are overrun with homeless camps now.[/quote] [/b]

Your "never lived in a city before" is showing. There are about 3 tents north of the circle and 3 to 5 homeless people sleeping on the Mass and CT side. I wouldn't call it "overrun" with camps compared to what we are seeing in other parts of the city,  though we are working on finding them housing.

/Dupont resident of 20 years [/quote]
Don't act like 17th Street wasn't out of control during the height of the pandemic. I've lived in dupont since 1999. [/quote]

NP here. I lived in DuPont from 2001 to 2008. Half a block from 17th. Walking from Q to CVS I always ran across at least four or five homeless people. When you went into CVS or Safeway or McDs there’d always be a homeless person or two at the door asking you to buy something. Did that change for a while to fewer homeless? Or were there even more homeless people in 2020 and beyond?[/quote]

I lived between DuPont and Adams Morgan starting in 1998. The camps today do not hold a candle to the “aggressive panhandling” of the 1990s.  Asking you to buy something at Safeway was one thing, but those parking space watchers were fierce.  [/quote]

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