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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I
Can
Not
Wait...
For these shelters to open.  
All this presumption about how neighborhoods will suddenly turn into post-apocalyptic Mad Max war zones with widespread anarchy and chaos is outrageous.  
I hope people are as open in admitting how idiotic their paranoid delusions were as they are forthcoming in declaring The End Is Near!!
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Screw off. You are the only one being hyperbolic. The shelters are going to waste a lot of money, they’re going to do nothing to help homeless that a similar shelter in a more logical location wouldn’t do, and they’re going to make the immediate neighborhood slightly worse. It’s stupid and it sucks, but it’s not the end of the world, and no one is suggesting it will end the world. It is however an entirely avoidable error that Bowser will refuse to change or acknowledge. [/quote]

What's a more logical location, besides somewhere different than your neighborhood?

Or should the shelter be in a more "diverse" part of town?

Or a more "urban" part of town?[/quote]

You don’t have to put urban in quotes because we get your point.  And by diverse I take it you mean black although you’re obviously using the wrong descriptor because you’re an imbecile.  But I’ll bite.......yes, house the homeless near where they are likely to get work and where they are likely to be near family and the social services they require.....e.g., the 95% of DC that you’d describe as black neighborhoods.[/quote]

And where they are likely to live after. Seems really odd to me to put kids in all these schools they will be yanked out when their families  find affordable housing (which will most likely not be in ward 3) unless there is some right to continue at Eaton, deal/hardy, Wilson? [/quote]

Because the children are likely to be considered "at risk," they will be able to continue at Eaton, Hardy/Deal and Wilson even as families move out of the shelter within these schools' boundary area.  So over time, the cohort of "at risk" children with specialized needs will continue to grow, as more families cycle through the shelter.  I'm sure that DCPS will be on top of the situation, providing appropriate additional learning specialists and other resources ... not.[/quote]

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