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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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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Perhaps true, for sure irrelevant.

From earlier in this very same thread:

"D.C. is the only jurisdiction in the area where people cannot be turned away from shelter during cold weather, and families never are turned away. While D.C. has a residency requirement for shelters, it rarely results in people from Maryland and Virginia being turned away."[/quote]

It's not irrelevant.  The policy is what it is in Arlington or FFX.  And exceptions get made in all of the during hypothermia conditions.  Nobody gets turned away when the weather is that cold, unless there is no room.[/quote]

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