Anonymous wrote:This is a serious issue, OP.

We are leaving 14th st in part because there are seriously mentally ill people living on the street.

It’s not good for them and it’s not good for us for them to be deteriorating in front of our eyes. What is the plan to fix it?
What is the plan to get mentally ill people or addicts out of tents and into some semblance of a support system?

14th Street stretches all the way from the White House to close to the Silver Spring border. Be more specific.

Anonymous wrote:Saw Gonzaga students handing out care packages and talking to residents in the NoMa encampments today. We can sit behind our screens and complain about how things should be, but nothing is going to change until a quorum of people put actions behind words.

They've been really active on that front! I saw a ton of them doing the same thing a week before. Lots of volunteers in NoMa and by the Hill are coming to the encampments with wheelbarrows of food, supplies, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:OP-consider moving to upper NWDC.

Can’t afford it. Not sure what our plan is.

Hmm ... Dupont Circle is more expensive per square foot than upper NWDC. Maybe trying posting your rental or purchase budget in the real estate board.

There's more SFH housing in NWDC than there is in Dupont. So that means if PP can afford a house in Dupont they can afford a house in NWDC where pricing is lower but conversely if they can afford a condo in Dupont they can't afford to buy in NWDC because there aren't any condos to be bought.

Less density.

Saw Gonzaga students handing out care packages and talking to residents in the NoMa encampments today. We can sit behind our screens and complain about how things should be, but nothing is going to change until a quorum of people put actions behind words.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in Upper NWDC. The city still hasn’t picked up the discarded Christmas trees from 2020. But our property taxes are due March 31.

So DC!

not picking up christmas trees does not equal getting harassed by mentally ill homeless people and dealing with tent encampments. i live in upper NWDC as well--it is not deteriorating just because there are a few dried out christmas trees in your alley.

That is actually deterioration in a rich neighborhood. I mean those tent encampments, for some odd reason, never seem to make it to NW.

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Anonymous wrote:We live in Upper NWDC. The city still hasn’t picked up the discarded Christmas trees from 2020. But our property taxes are due March 31.

So DC!

not picking up christmas trees does not equal getting harassed by mentally ill homeless people and dealing with tent encampments. i live in upper NWDC as well--it is not deteriorating just because there are a few dried out christmas trees in your alley.

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Anonymous wrote:OP-consider moving to upper NWDC.

Can’t afford it. Not sure what our plan is.

Hmm ... Dupont Circle is more expensive per square foot than upper NWDC. Maybe trying posting your rental or purchase budget in the real estate board.

We live about a block away also with a preschool age child and yes, I am very dismayed with what's happening in the area. The couple outside of safeway are taking up way too much public space and are a nuisance. They have pulled knives on multiple people and are at times extremely aggressive. The woman has been offered housing but refused or otherwise couldn't take it because of her drug addiction. Outside of McDonalds, the vet that used to be there was fine and harmless. He did get housing, but unfortunately came back and brought the other people who current hang out there and they stayed. As a community we need to be compassionate and helpful while not letting the neighborhood deteriorate (and yes, having homeless people addicted to drugs causes neighborhood deterioration)

For those saying the area was always sketchy- no it wasn't. I lived here until 2010, went away for a few years and came back in 2015. It was fine in 2010 and when I came back in 2015 it was also great/fine. The decline started around 2019 with the arrival of the couple outside safeway (and many others in other parts of dupont).

Dupont circle itself is almost unusable now given the huge number of homeless people and the decrepit state the parks dept. has let it come to.

Agree Stead park is like falling apart- the field is fine the agree parts of the playground are actually dangerous now. They are supposed to be re-doing it, which is why I'm sure they aren't fixing things.

Here’s the DC DM HHS page that shows scheduled encampment cleanups.

https://dmhhs.dc.gov/page/encampments

You can call them to report an encampment.

You should probably also call the mayor and your council member at the same time to ask them to provide better support.

This is a serious issue, OP.

We are leaving 14th st in part because there are seriously mentally ill people living on the street.

It’s not good for them and it’s not good for us for them to be deteriorating in front of our eyes. What is the plan to fix it?
What is the plan to get mentally ill people or addicts out of tents and into some semblance of a support system?

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Anonymous wrote:I do. If there is a Republican on the Council or Mayoral Ticket, or an indeoendent I know is central (not fringey) I vote for them hands down. Pur city needs a more balanced approach to these kinds of issues.

Why do you think no democratic candidate wants to make the city clean? I believe most of people who complained on this board are democrats.

There is no competition against Rs so DC candidates need only win primaries. The easiest path to winning a primary is rallying your base on social media and not implementing any serious changes that may fail and make you look bad. Even making the city clean puts a DC candidate at risk of civil liberty complaints and activists on social media raging against them.

Have you see what the R candidates advocate for? If the R candidate had won for council they’d be advocating for slashing taxes and cutting social services, because their goal is to harm city people and their kids (R candidate for house delegate actually lived in Maryland— he hates DC.)

Did you miss Jared Kushner, in the Republican White House, saying that cities needed to “suffer”?

I’m hoping you’re just ill informed and not a troll.

Anonymous wrote:OP-consider moving to upper NWDC.

Can’t afford it. Not sure what our plan is.

Anonymous wrote:I don't think it's a D or R issue, it's an opioid issue.

it's also a "we can't institutionalize, don't have the laws/resources to do so" issue.

I don't think it's a D or R issue, it's an opioid issue.

Anonymous wrote:What are the most effective ways to try to get the tents out of there/enforce no loitering, no drug use, etc. Is it worth emailing the mayors office? Or is there a complaint system online that actually does anything? I don’t even know where to begin

There isn't. Muriel DGAF about these people, and never did. She's not going to do anything, no matter how often we inundate her office with emails.