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Anonymous wrote:And to that point upper caucasia (which since you lived here, you probably know includes Asians. Blacks etc), is mostly myopic if anything else in their desire to "help". For example, the loud crowd wanting densification in the name of affordable housing, the loud crowd wanting to defund the police, the loud crowd wanting to convert the Wardman Marriott into 900 low-income units (which would basically be another DC General). This is an extreme liberal group in upper caucasia actively seeking to participate in DC chaos from some myopic savior complex, rather than smart solutions that bring up the whole city.

Rumors are the city wants to acquire the Days Inn property and turn it into a shelter. Time will tell.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is still true, but that Days Inn has often housed tourists who come to DC for protests and such, and I was, startlingly, told to avoid the area the week of the January 6th insurrection.

If, as it has been reported, the violence happened inside the hotel, perhaps the issue is complicated by the need to both protect free speech and other Constitutional rights, while also protecting the rights of those of us who live and work here.

Omg you are ridiculous

DC people — you are getting the crime you voted for

+1 you deserve all of this. If you care then vote differently.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is in Van Ness? I left dc 10 years ago but isn’t that a quiet area with expensive homes?

It used to be

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/mpd-referred-three-van-ness-apartment-buildings-to-dc-ags-nuisance-property-office/ (not the only 3)

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/the-brandywine-apartments-like-sedgwick-gardens-is-seeing-an-influx-of-voucher-holders/

The Days Inn was housing homeless, after the housing homeless cv program ended. It had 73 police calls in the last 6 months per MPD.

City programs put people in the hotel and in apartment buildings on Connecticut (Wisconsin and Mass too) with little to no screening of a criminal element. They pay 180% of market rate for rentals and after 1 month the unit is permanently out of rent control, it is fantastic guaranteed money for landlords (who heavily fund Bowser). The WP wrote a few articles on crime at the Sedgewick Gardens due to the same program. How many more could be housed at only market rate? Could that additional money go to services for tenants mentally ill and drug addicted tenants and for security instead of enriching the landlords? In the case of Forest Hills, those buildings used to have a lot of families sending their kids to Murch, Deal and Wilson.

I feel bad for the neighborhood (used to live on Connecticut Avenue) but I will say that I am glad to finally see other parts of the city experiencing what Wards 5-8 have been dealing with for years - the DC government used to cram every homeless shelter east of the park. Now maybe you in Upper Caucasia will understand that the homeless problem needs to be addressed, not just pushed out of your area.

This is such an *-hat attitude. No one wants Wards 5-8 or any other neighborhood to experience blight and crime.

Anonymous wrote:And to that point upper caucasia (which since you lived here, you probably know includes Asians. Blacks etc), is mostly myopic if anything else in their desire to "help". For example, the loud crowd wanting densification in the name of affordable housing, the loud crowd wanting to defund the police, the loud crowd wanting to convert the Wardman Marriott into 900 low-income units (which would basically be another DC General). This is an extreme liberal group in upper caucasia actively seeking to participate in DC chaos from some myopic savior complex, rather than smart solutions that bring up the whole city.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is in Van Ness? I left dc 10 years ago but isn’t that a quiet area with expensive homes?

It used to be

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/mpd-referred-three-van-ness-apartment-buildings-to-dc-ags-nuisance-property-office/ (not the only 3)

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/the-brandywine-apartments-like-sedgwick-gardens-is-seeing-an-influx-of-voucher-holders/

The Days Inn was housing homeless, after the housing homeless cv program ended. It had 73 police calls in the last 6 months per MPD.

City programs put people in the hotel and in apartment buildings on Connecticut (Wisconsin and Mass too) with little to no screening of a criminal element. They pay 180% of market rate for rentals and after 1 month the unit is permanently out of rent control, it is fantastic guaranteed money for landlords (who heavily fund Bowser). The WP wrote a few articles on crime at the Sedgewick Gardens due to the same program. How many more could be housed at only market rate? Could that additional money go to services for tenants mentally ill and drug addicted tenants and for security instead of enriching the landlords? In the case of Forest Hills, those buildings used to have a lot of families sending their kids to Murch, Deal and Wilson.

I feel bad for the neighborhood (used to live on Connecticut Avenue) but I will say that I am glad to finally see other parts of the city experiencing what Wards 5-8 have been dealing with for years - the DC government used to cram every homeless shelter east of the park. Now maybe you in Upper Caucasia will understand that the homeless problem needs to be addressed, not just pushed out of your area.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is in Van Ness? I left dc 10 years ago but isn’t that a quiet area with expensive homes?

It used to be

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/mpd-referred-three-van-ness-apartment-buildings-to-dc-ags-nuisance-property-office/ (not the only 3)

https://www.foresthillsconnection.com/news/the-brandywine-apartments-like-sedgwick-gardens-is-seeing-an-influx-of-voucher-holders/

The Days Inn was housing homeless, after the housing homeless cv program ended. It had 73 police calls in the last 6 months per MPD.

City programs put people in the hotel and in apartment buildings on Connecticut (Wisconsin and Mass too) with little to no screening of a criminal element. They pay 180% of market rate for rentals and after 1 month the unit is permanently out of rent control, it is fantastic guaranteed money for landlords (who heavily fund Bowser). The WP wrote a few articles on crime at the Sedgewick Gardens due to the same program. How many more could be housed at only market rate? Could that additional money go to services for tenants mentally ill and drug addicted tenants and for security instead of enriching the landlords? In the case of Forest Hills, those buildings used to have a lot of families sending their kids to Murch, Deal and Wilson.

Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is in Van Ness? I left dc 10 years ago but isn’t that a quiet area with expensive homes?

Anonymous wrote:Bowser is so weak on crime

Anonymous wrote:Press conference on site at 4:30

Anonymous wrote:Jesus this is in Van Ness? I left dc 10 years ago but isn’t that a quiet area with expensive homes?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not sure if this is still true, but that Days Inn has often housed tourists who come to DC for protests and such, and I was, startlingly, told to avoid the area the week of the January 6th insurrection.

If, as it has been reported, the violence happened inside the hotel, perhaps the issue is complicated by the need to both protect free speech and other Constitutional rights, while also protecting the rights of those of us who live and work here.

Omg you are ridiculous

DC people — you are getting the crime you voted for