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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get it. What does Mayor Bowser do all day?

In a month she has lost the FBI and the Caps/Wizards.

How much does the city have to lose before we all admit that the city is collapsing?

This is kind of a nightmare. Follow the money people. The money is LEAVING the city.
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She still has the Mystics. [/quote]

The FBI leaving is a good thing so DC can develop that entire block into a mixed use building with housing. The problem is DC will require 30% of the housing to be for low income people. That’s not going to revitalize downtown. People with money is always the demographic to lure anywhere to revitalize an area.[/quote]

CapOne can be converted to affordable housing as well. [/quote]

According to the WP, Leonsis owns it.

See, the same crowd that got us here wants this to be a windfall for more of the same. Bowser seems to have had that wake up call, certainly was not universal. [/quote]

He'll bail from it. Why would he keep it. Yay! More affordable housing! [/quote]

When more and more of the city does not work at legal jobs and never will, who will pay the bills? The current policies are drawing addicts and vagrants from across the country. As more tax payers leave, what happens then?

It's clear that when fed and CRE leases expire they will shrink their footprints. The solution is not to become the homeless luxury housing destination for the US. No money = no enhanced social benefits nor new bike lanes. It's like a war between reality and DSA kool aid drinkers. [/quote]

Seriously, why should DC offer more and richer (for landlords) housing vouchers than any locality in the mid-Atlantic?  Maybe among most cities?  Other cities try to attract more private investment.  Is it the goal of activists and their political partners in DC that the District become the destination of choice for those seeking to live on taxpayer assistance?[/quote]

It already has.

CA offers cash assistance but has changed their law to make involuntary commitment easier so that has lessened the appeal to some a bit. Here you get a permanent housing voucher for middle class buildings and the voucher is not removed even if you commit a crime in the unit, threaten staff, neighbors, etc. You just get relocated, maybe. Many jurisdictions offer one way bus fare and sometimes Amtrak is paid for is my understanding. Some new neighbors come via Union Station. The housing vouchers are not going to those who have been on the section 8 list for decades. More here. https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/panel-at-ward-3-democrats-dec-6th-meeting-will-discuss-housing-vouchers-and-impact-on-rent-stabilized-apartments/
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