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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/homeless-shelter-plan-could-be-profitable-for-bowsers-backers/2016/03/16/cbab0e76-eadc-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html?hpid=hp_local-news_dchomeless-845pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory

and in the article " broad range stems from the fact that the administration chose sites suited for families. He also said the buildings would be unique and require costly amenities such as durable surfaces, since families could be moving multiple times per year, and would include cafeterias and play spaces for children."

Cafeterias for what?  At that rent units should have kitchens.  WTF play space?  Suburban style yards?  Note units near woodley park metro are by a DC public school.  We saw one building where a whole side of it overlooked the playground.  Came with renovated kitchens , balconies, granite, breakfast bar in lobby, washer-dryers in units.  Less rent than Bowser.

A charitable organization-Anne Frank House-rents or owns units-http://www.theannefrankhouse.org/
It serves those with chronic mental illness but the model would work far better than Bowser's and many in DC general might be chronically homeless.

Stats on move-outs? Move-ins?[/quote]

Aren't there good reasons to have a communal dining area and cafeteria?  Each unit would need to have a kitchen and dining area, which adds to costruction costs.  Furnishing a kitchen is incredibly expensive and would have to be restocked each time a unit was turned over.  Kitchens present an increased risk of fire.  CFSA can do a better job in ensuring nutritional needs are being met and do it more economically than each family purchasing their own food.  A communal area helps families with children socialize so that they don't cocoon in their units and staff can better monitor whether nutritional needs are being met, evidence of substance abuse and neglect, etc. [/quote]

Please.  The families can't piss or bathe in privacy so "they don't cocoon in their units"!?  When your four year old needs to use the bathroom @ 4 AM, do you have to wake all your other children and have them to accompany you to the communal bathroom lest they wake up (or be left alone in the room)?

You make me laugh at your naïveté on how kitchens would "add[s] to the construction costs."   The city is not including private bathrooms in order to evade zoning restrictions- that's Bowser putting the developers'  ahead of families' well-being. [/quote]

Agree re: naïveté. I think perhaps PP hasn't spent much time yet paying her own rent/mortgage. She would know how out of line these numbers are. [/quote]

I think perhaps in your haste to be a bitch you failed to recognize that I did not offer my opinion about the reasonableness of the economics of the shelters.  I was merely attempting to respond to the "cafeterias for what?" poster.  And not that it's any of your business, I am quite familiar with the amount pay each month to the financial institution that holds the note on my mortgage.  In any event, even though I'm by no means a expert on DC zoning regs, if the property needs to be upzoned, I'm fairly confident that even if a shelter of the type proposed isn't a matter of right use, the number of bathrooms isn't going be critical.  [/quote]

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