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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There should be affordable housing built near the shelters so that people can stay in the neighborhoods they are placed in. Otherwise it doesn't make sense to displace families after they've stabilized.

FWIW, there was a post of PoPville about how the Columbia Heights residents are opposed to the new shelter that's going up there so this isn't just a ward 3 thing. [/quote]

are you dense?  Columbia Heights has the highest concentration of subsidized housing in the city. Public Housing, Section 8, including a homeless shelter and medical facility,  permanent "supportive" housing for recovering addicts.   Please tell me why Ward 3 thinks they are exempt from sharing a city wide burden. How many of you have signs in your yard stating that "all are welcome here" in multiple languages?  Just as long as they aren't homeless.  And to the poster who thinks its wrong to let poor folks live in Ward 3 for a few months since they won't be able to stay long term?  What you are saying is "why let them see how nice our life is, it will only make them sad"- insert sad face emoji. WTF is wrong with you?[/quote]

I'm confused. What I'm saying is that there should be affordable housing near the new ward 3 shelter so that there is a path for people who stay at the shelter to permanently transition into the neighborhood. [/quote]

And how, pray tell, will you do that?   Use eminent domain and tear down the SFHs in Cleveland Park historic district?  Bulldoze McLean Gardens and build high rises?  Cathedral Commons is already built out, [b]and the minimal 'affordable' units there are being rented by AU students. [/b] The fancy Wegman's town center will include the minimal number of 'affordable' units also, but the developer intends that to be more upscale than Cathedral Commons.  [/quote]

Do you have evidence of this?  Most AU students are too wealthy to waste time gaming the IZ system and it makes even less sense with all the new on-campus housing AU has built.  Do do you know that this has happened or does it just fit your ignorant narrative of what is going on around you?[/quote]

Check it out.  It's the sad reality.

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This is such a bizarre allegation though it is hardly sad though it might be [b]fraudulent.[/b]

But how in the world do you even know this?  Did you follow an AU student up to their floor then come back later and break-in when they weren't home to review their lease?

It makes almost no sense that an AU student would bother with this - the waitlist to get a unit is very long (and managed by DC not the building) and students have very little flexibility on move-in dates.  And the rates under the current law for an 80% AMI unit aren't any better than student housing or living in the Berks - I happen to know a bit about both AU students and their off campus housing costs and would be shocked if your allegation is true.  People of course cheat and lie all the time but the savings/reward in this case for an inconvenient unit for a population that generally isn't cost conscious makes for a really illogical series of events.

Here is what is not illogical - every single development proposal that comes up along Wisconsin Avenue inevitably yields some cantankerous senior at a public meeting bitching that the units will just be occupied by AU students.  Of course that never turns out to be true (and what the harm of that would be is never clear) but I'm guessing this poster was shopping at the Giant and saw someone with in AU sweatshirt and something went off in their brain where they connected some dots and come up with this haphazard and inaccurate photo.[/quote]

"Fraudulent"?!  Hey, Sherlock, maybe you should go to work for Devin Nunes!   :lol:  :lol: [/quote]

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