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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is what Matt meant by making “Ward 3 More Welcoming.”   How’s it working out?[/quote]

Serious danger to community residents from violence like this is “out of site out of mind” to people like Frumin. He truly does not care at all.[/quote]

I don't know how many times it needs to be stressed here. Most voucher recipients are not habitual violent criminals or offenders, there is a small minority. It should also be noted crime is up in white states such as Colorado, Washington, Vermont, Oregon. This is a direct result of the prolonged COVID closures, low wages, inflation and the pitiful way this country deals with mental illness. [/quote]

Crime is up in Ward 3 more than other parts of DC. Ward 3 has experienced a 45 percent in crime year-over-year. That compares with a 27 percent increase for DC at large. While voucher holders may not directly be the source, there is a strong argument that they are indirectly contributing. Case in point is that the shooter in this month's "incident" had entry access to the Saratoga even though he wasn't a resident. One solution could be capping the number of vouchers per building to avoid destabilizing a building or a neighborhood. Another solution would be to use some of this available housing stock to provide vouchers for teachers, law enforcement and other first responders/essential workers who are priced out of the neighborhood. Voucher recipients should also be required to access services as needed.

If this is not curbed, people will leave the neighborhood and it will create a spiraling effect. There are terrible market distortions and perverse incentives in the voucher program that need to be corrected. But more importantly, more lives could be unnecessarily lost. [/quote]

There should not be a voucher cap because then you will have people sleeping on the street and then crime rates will rise even more. People who have nothing to lose will wreak havoc on the community. D.C. has more police per capita than elsewhere in the country, more police will not keep you safe. Investing in holistic services will keep you safe. It is racist to argue that [b]everyone is not entitled to proper housing, food,  and healthcare.[/b] [/quote]

Amazing. Every word of what you just said was wrong.[/quote

Most poor in DC have access to shelters, healthcare and EBT, unlike the working poor and middle class who struggle to pay for those things AND high taxes. Like CA, the generous benefits actually draw people here. But over market rate individual apartments? On who's dime? Explain the economics of that over time when many in the program are quite young and do nothing re: education (could get free credits at UDC), job training, or otherwise preparing to be self supporting at any point. When the CRE disaster is fully felt and the tax base shrinks, money for these programs will be cut. Biden already almost cut HUD voucher funding. Why don't you think people can do what people have always done, support themselves and their families? Why such low expectations? [/quote]

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