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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Because this ain't about PG County doofus. DC residents need affordable housing and it's not Angela Alsobrooks and the folks in PG County's job to take care of DC residents. Are you that stupid?[/quote]

Why can't existing DC residents move to affordable PG county if they truly can't find an affordable apartment in the District?  Why do they need to move to Cleveland Park instead?

Affluent DC residents leave DC all the time for Maryland.  It's fine for poor people to move, too. This isn't an inherently tragic scenario.[/quote]

Damn you just cold-blooded huh?

DC’s low-income families with housing challenges are working moms, people with disabilities relying on fixed incomes, and single adults in low-wage service-sector jobs. Many low-income renters are seniors or have a disability and must rely on low fixed incomes.  Social Security benefits average just $15,000 in DC which is barely enough to afford $400 a month in rent.  
But your attitude is basically, "Fcuk em, they need to pack their shit and move."

Struggling to make rent each month often means cutting back on groceries, putting off medical care, living on the brink of eviction, and being under constant stress which makes it hard for children to learn in school and for adults to perform well at work. Families may find themselves moving from place to place, losing belongings, and ending up in a neighborhood with even more challenges than their prior locale.  
But your attitude is basically, "Fcuk em, they need to pack their shit and move."

Very young children who move frequently do worse than their peers on measures of behavioral school readiness, such as attention and healthy social behavior. They are more likely than others to fall behind and drop out of school. Families who have trouble paying the rent or live doubled-up are more likely to delay medical care or filling needed prescriptions, and are more likely to report being depressed.
But your attitude is basically, "Fcuk em, they need to pack their shit and move."

If this were happening to an area in West Virginia where all the pricey $300,000 condos going up were forcing low-income white families out of trailer parks I'm betting your attitude would be different...  
[i]"That is so awful they can't just come in and price people out of their own cities and communities"[/i]

But since the District’s severely cost burdened, extremely low-income renters are primarily African-American and most of the rest are Latino the reaction is significantly more subdued.
[i]"Oh well, fcuk em.  Those non-white folks need to pack their shit and move they can always just to go to PG County."[/i]

Cold-blooded.[/quote]

This isn't a poetry slam, pal.

Yes, it is absolutely my position that nobody has a right to live at a particular address.  There are many addresses currently available to lower income people.  In fact,[i] it's where they're already living right now.[/i]  There isn't a housing shortage for low-income people in the general DMV.

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My position

1.  Concentrating poor people in already poor areas reinforces economic (and usually racial) segregation, and is bad for our society
2.  PG County will NOT be able to provide all the housing needed by poor people in this region
3.  Longer commutes for poor people is not a good thing.  
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