Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?

Compare the map location of violent crimes in Ward 3 with the buildings where there are concentrations of vouchers. The overlap is striking.

If Bowser promised to spread “crime for all”, then “mission accomplished, mayor!”

Of course, we can’t have any nice things or nice neighborhoods, we need them to be equitable.

Lots of people— including some who post here — don’t want things to be “nice” and equitable. So not-nice and equitable is a not surprising result. How many of you complaining about the spread of violent crime have done anything —anything at all— to ensure that under-resourced neighborhoods get better resources. Even when it comes to public resources, the privileged neighborhoods and schools seem eager to maintain their privileges. So we can have nice things. The “trick” is that everyone gets access to nice things and nice neighborhoods — particularly when it comes to public services and resources.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?

Compare the map location of violent crimes in Ward 3 with the buildings where there are concentrations of vouchers. The overlap is striking.

If Bowser promised to spread “crime for all”, then “mission accomplished, mayor!”

Of course, we can’t have any nice things or nice neighborhoods, we need them to be equitable.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?

Compare the map location of violent crimes in Ward 3 with the buildings where there are concentrations of vouchers. The overlap is striking.

If Bowser promised to spread “crime for all”, then “mission accomplished, mayor!”

Anonymous wrote:All of DC is a shithole. Go to the Chevy Chase Safeway and see homeless guys harrassing shoppers and others walking around half naked and high as kites.

Anonymous wrote:If anyone had read the article, the stabbing occurred in Maryland.

Anonymous wrote:All of DC is a shithole. Go to the Chevy Chase Safeway and see homeless guys harrassing shoppers and others walking around half naked and high as kites.

Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This isn’t a surprise for DC. It’s only marginally surprising because it’s right on MD border and in Chevy Chase, where a tiny house will cost well over a million. People pay the high prices to be safe and away from DC crime.

The DC houses on the other side of the border cost as much or more per square foot. You know, in Chevy Chase DC and "FH" in DC. A tiny house costs "well over a million." People pay the high price in 20015 and 20016 close to Metro for all kinds of reasons: commute, free preK, adorable houses, whatever.

It's 2024, not 1984

Anonymous wrote:This isn’t a surprise for DC. It’s only marginally surprising because it’s right on MD border and in Chevy Chase, where a tiny house will cost well over a million. People pay the high prices to be safe and away from DC crime.

Anonymous wrote:This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?