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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Urban Zombies

When they start branching out to the suburbs, you've got problems.

Yesterday I was hit up by 6 in a 2 block area. 4 seemed to be professional panhandlers. They wanted cigarettes and change.  [/quote]

The suburbs send them to DC.[/quote]

People are so ignorant about who the homeless are.  Of those 8,350 homeless people, only 1500 of them are chronically homeless - which includes people homeless for a year or more, or people homeless on four separate occasions.  So assuming that half of them have been "shipped" from the suburbs, you still have 7,600 of your own.  [b]Nobody is shipping a homeless mother and two kids to DC.[/b] [/quote]

True. They are coming out of their own volition because they can get a better deal here, as the only jurisdiction that doesn't require to be a local resident. Were I in their shoes, I'd do the same.

Still, is this something that DC voters have voted? Do we want to become the homeless center for the DMV?[/quote]

For a family to get into transitional housing they must be a DC resident.  http://dcregs.dc.gov/Gateway/FinalAdoptionHome.aspx?RuleVersionID=3748388

(c)	Is a resident of the District of Columbia as defined by section 503 of the District of Columbia Public Assistance Act of 1982, effective April 6, 1982 (D.C. Law 4-101; D.C. Official Code § 4-205.03);

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