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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]
Screw off again.  It's not being put in my neighborhood.  I think it should go in an existing building in a less expensive location.  DC owns plenty of unused buildings and lots that could be converted to shelter space more cheaply than this one is to build.  But we're jamming a brand new building into an expensive area because Bowser wants to put a shelter into every ward for purely political reasons ... practicality be damned.

Take your veiled accusations of racism and shove them up your ass.  It's just a stupid plan.  And quite frankly, Bowser's determination to put a shelter in every ward - rather than in spaces that make the most sense - smacks of a race-based calculation itself.[/quote]

[b]I work for the city[/b], please tell me where all these cheap DC owned buildings are located that aren’t being used for other things.  And for the folks arguing that the homeless should live elsewhere since they will never be able to afford ward 4... well you just made the argument for why we need more subsidized housing in ward 3![/quote]

Oxymoron.[/quote]

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