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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can anyone interpret what he means by this?

[twitter]https://twitter.com/CMFrumin/status/1704855367182700759[/twitter][/quote]

What are these magical “services” that Frumin keeps hiding behind?  Does he even know?

I mean, if someone aloud me to live in a luxury building like the Saratoga for free in perpetuity I would be a model citizen.  I’d be out picking up trash along Connecticut Ave and helping old ladies across the street and spend the rest of my time thanking my lucky stars.  I’d need no other incentives.  But no, I pay 1/3 of my salary to live in a 1950’s building that probably should just be torn down. It kills me that I’m partially paying for these people to live better than me.  It’s completely unfair and dystopian. [/quote]

The fact that there is no requirement to participate in services or even open the door to the one sw visit a month makes it a ludicrous argument.

I'm still stuck on what he means by keeping communities "whole?" The community around The Saratoga has changed radically in the past 5 years. Look at MPD crime cards if you don't believe me. At the community meeting, both Frumin and MPD acknowledged that crime has risen in the Connecticut and Wisconsin corridors at the same time the number of vouchers has soared to over 3,000 permanent supportive housing vouchers in those buildings. If crime cards showed drug related activity bet that would be eye opening. Yet Van Ness Main Street is jonesing for a dispensary. More and more businesses are closing, how are more low income people going to help that? Dispensaries have a lot of cash and a valuable product, they attract crime. The agenda of VNMS and DC seems to be to clear regular paying people out, esp those paying under market rent, ie, the elderly, most afraid of crime, followed by families and single women. [/quote]

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