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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It appears that Frumin tolerated the voucher program in exchange for the mayor supporting the bike lane program.  He blew what limited political capital he had and now he looks like a fool.  The ANCs have been captured by the GGW crowd but pretty much every neighbor on the corridor is fired up about up this.  [/quote]

I would not make any assumptions about the “GGW” crowd. I am pro transit and housing development but very against this terribly mismanaged program. In fact it will likely result in me moving to Virginia because as a renter with a child, I’m not going to expose him to the risk of being in an unsafe building. [/quote]

Unfortunately you can’t be pro housing development and anti bad voucher program.  They are one and the same in DC.  [/quote]

It's not pro-housing development.  Nothing is being developed, it's all existing buildings.  Existing tenants are being pushed out in favor or voucher tenants.  It's replacement.  Let's not kid ourselves that this is affordable housing "creation".

Previous tenants, law obedient citizens move out somewhere where they don't have to deal with degeneracy, many of them are rent control older tenants and families.  People who need housing and have very few options, and often have to move somewhere less convenient while thugs get preferential treatment and cannot be touched with a ten foot pole.

This program needs to be reformed.  First, make screening mandatory and allow landlords to avoid problem tenants and also make it easy for landlords to get rid of voucher tenants who cause problems easily.  People with untreated mental illness or severe drug addiction or criminal tendencies should not be forcibly integrated into the buildings and neighborhoods of people who live by different set of rules.  The former do need housing and are often the ones unable to procure it, but not in the settings where their issues cannot be handled and addressed.  Residential buildings are not mental health institutions, drug rehabs or low security prisons.  There are plenty of low wage people who want better lives, who want to raise kids in safer neighborhoods, and are law obedient, rule following, and hard working who need housing help. [/quote]

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