Reply to Mary Cheh has turned Cleveland Park/Cleveland Park North into her personal political asset

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "Mary Cheh has turned Cleveland Park/Cleveland Park North into her personal political asset"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, I hope that they are expected to do something meaningful and worthwhile during the day, that will advance them from homelessness. Is that part of the 8 new shelter policy? Job, job training, treatment, further education. Planting tree canopy is fine. Has the Mayor hashed out any agreements with Giant etc for job placements? No, i am not looking at Giant as a public service. More, something win-win as everyone has mentioned the families placed there will be hard working folks who have fallen through the cracks.   [/quote]

Sigh - homeless does not equal unemployed.

I presume the PP is a clueless CP resident who has no idea that there are two groups of homeless people - the long term homeless who often have mental health and substance abuse issues and short term homeless who run into monetary or relationship issues that suddenly push them into a precarious situation and out from under their roof.

The vast majority of homeless fall into the latter group and most of them in fact are employed.

And the city has a strong incentive to provide them services so they stay in the latter category but of only a short period which includes staying employed and keeping their kids in school which over the long term benefits these individuals and the city and saves a lot of money.

If you live in CP you probably really have little to no idea how many people in our country and city live paycheck to paycheck and are one unexpected roadblock away from being unable to pay their rent.

But since PP is home during the day you can go check-in on the homeless to make sure they are making good use of their time in-between getting your morning latte and your mani-pedi.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics