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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, say good bye to that nice Guy Mason playground. It's going to be fun to see litter and people sleeping all over it at 3pm. I am a firm believer in NIMBY. What next, a methadone clinic?

Oh, and whatever schools these shelters will be inbounds for, prepare for those schools to go downhill fast.[/quote]

So you are saying that homeless shelters should not be spread throughout the city and should be concentrated in less affluent neighborhoods?  Well, the people in Ward 5 and Ward 6, who have shouldered the majority of the burden thus far, want to know what makes your ward so special?  This is everyone's burden to bear. Sorry. [/quote]

What I have not seen in this whole discussion is where those folks are coming from. From outside DC? Mostly from DC itself? If so, from which Ward? Sorry, but if (imagine) all homeless people were raised in Ward 5, and that's what they know best, it makes no particular sense to spread them across all Wards. If they all come from (say) Virginia, why should DC wear the burden?

If Bowser trying to help existing homeless people or to disrupt a number of neighborhoods and potentially bring even more homeless into the city? Those are different objectives[/quote]

It is interesting that when Arlington opened a new homeless shelter, everyone claimed DC would send their homeless to Arlington.  In reality, the homeless had been living in Arlington but it was difficult to determine how they originally came to Arlington[/quote]

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