Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 17:20     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
I agree we need to reopen mental institutions. This should not be a partisan issue. The reforms of the 80s were well intentioned, but were underfunded and went too far. We need a variety of support systems - from subsidized and lightly supervised to completely institutional settings.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 16:50     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
K St was the only one cleared, not the L or M St at Metro. That said, there are still tents under K St, so unless the city is going to do daily enforcement, this is all much ado about nothing.

I vote for a designated camp ground for those who could go to shelters but just don't want to. Perhaps in one of the NE industrial zones along the rail heading out of the city. Maybe even go full on IDP (internally displaced persons) / refugee camp with provision of food and tents and a dedicated security and Red Cross or other NGO staff. And for those who are so mentally deteriorated (whether through addiction or illness) that they are a danger to themselves and others, I don't see any humane solution other than state-funded institutionalization.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 15:29     Subject: Re:DC clears homeless near K Street
Friday night I saw about 10 tents under the bridge at noma metro. They are back already.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 15:12     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
Anonymous wrote:I,assume they will just all move 1 block over. Why not leave them alone?


Because the yuppies must be embarrasssed that when someone steps off Union Station, there’s a bunch of homeless people in the first class city.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 14:51     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Can we just build mansions for the homeless? Every homeless person deserves a mansion near the White House. They have such a hard life. Let's tax Bezos and all the corporations that are racist and mean. My heart hurts for these poor people. They need mansions.


How will they get around? BMW or Mercedes?


Don't be dense. Obviously they will get Tesla because of the environment. Also the self driving feature will be useful for when they pass out from drug/alcohol use. It is a win-win.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 14:44     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
Now do 17th Street. There are TONS of resources in DC for the homeless. I’m absolutely not saying it’s a choice but I am saying that there are options.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 13:59     Subject: Re:DC clears homeless near K Street
Is this the encampment und we the bridge at the Noma metro and 1 block from Harris Teeter? There's about 10 tents there.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 08:06     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
I,assume they will just all move 1 block over. Why not leave them alone?
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 08:04     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The city need some to have a sanitation crew(s) with police escorts that remove any and all homeless crap on any sidewalk, bus stop, underpass daily.

If they see it, tell the person they haven 5 minutes to get moving then all the crap into the dumpster. Rinse and repeat. Word needs to get out that bums once doorways a on the streets aren’t allowed anymore.

Same for surrounding areas. I so with montgomery and other areas would round up the damn street corner bums.

It’s not a popular opinion but hey if the street bums were bussed in the middle of the night and left in some town in the middle of no place would be just fine.


Damn. Why not just take them on a bus and have the bus drive off a cliff with all the homeless in it, while you’re at it.

We should be helping these people, or tearing them down.


Why not use Obama’s 15 mil mansion and house some there? Build some smaller homes on the large property. He doesn’t need all that.


He didn’t build that house.


I'm pretty sure the streets around their house get cleared.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 07:56     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The city need some to have a sanitation crew(s) with police escorts that remove any and all homeless crap on any sidewalk, bus stop, underpass daily.

If they see it, tell the person they haven 5 minutes to get moving then all the crap into the dumpster. Rinse and repeat. Word needs to get out that bums once doorways a on the streets aren’t allowed anymore.

Same for surrounding areas. I so with montgomery and other areas would round up the damn street corner bums.

It’s not a popular opinion but hey if the street bums were bussed in the middle of the night and left in some town in the middle of no place would be just fine.


Damn. Why not just take them on a bus and have the bus drive off a cliff with all the homeless in it, while you’re at it.

We should be helping these people, or tearing them down.


Why not use Obama’s 15 mil mansion and house some there? Build some smaller homes on the large property. He doesn’t need all that.


He didn’t build that house.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 07:33     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Too many people. Just in general there are too many of us. The planet needs a pandemic.


That's what Hillary had planned if she had won. But she didn't thank GOD.

Wanting people to die because they are sick and homeless is not what any good decent person would say.

We need to love take care of each other.


Off your meds?
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 07:13     Subject: Re:DC clears homeless near K Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of these "homeless" people are so mentally ill that they are truly unable to adequately care for themselves. In the not-so-distant past, society had a means of taking care of these people: mental institutions where these mentally ill people got food, medical care, and proper housing. Then all of a sudden, the liberals shut down these government-run institutions, and put these crazy people out on the streets....where they do drugs, create filthy "encampments", defecate on the sidewalks, and freeze to death in the winter.

So let's re-open (or build new) mental hospitals where these sad unfortunate people can be taken care of....whether they like it or not.

It's for their own good. And for ours too.

There's an excellent video on the subject. It's an hour long, and it's called "Seattle Is Dying". It's on YouTube.


+1. I worked in a mental institution for a few months. It actually wasn’t too bad, even on the locked ward. It was clean, the patients were getting their meds, and they had a reasonable amount of space to roam around. Liberals screwed up by shutting them down. Now homeless people are everywhere. I hate going to DC.


Liar. It was a Republican president who cleaned out ST Elizabeth a federal mental institution. The buildings set empty for decades. Mental institutions around the country followed the path of ST E’s, saving their government millions. ST E’s is now the home of Homeland Security, and the mentally ill of the DC metro area still roam free thanks to trickle down conservatives.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 07:06     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The city need some to have a sanitation crew(s) with police escorts that remove any and all homeless crap on any sidewalk, bus stop, underpass daily.

If they see it, tell the person they haven 5 minutes to get moving then all the crap into the dumpster. Rinse and repeat. Word needs to get out that bums once doorways a on the streets aren’t allowed anymore.

Same for surrounding areas. I so with montgomery and other areas would round up the damn street corner bums.

It’s not a popular opinion but hey if the street bums were bussed in the middle of the night and left in some town in the middle of no place would be just fine.


Damn. Why not just take them on a bus and have the bus drive off a cliff with all the homeless in it, while you’re at it.

We should be helping these people, or tearing them down.


Start with reopening the mental hospitals and involuntarily admitting the mentally ill.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 07:04     Subject: DC clears homeless near K Street
Anonymous wrote:We need to build SROs that can house people longer-term, and that are also combined with targeted social services. That won't completely solve the problem, but I think it's the #1 thing we can do to make a dent.


DC can do what then Mayor Guliani did for NYC, give them all one-way tickets back to NYC. Guliani sent a lot of New York’s homeless to DC and other cities.
Anonymous
Post 01/19/2020 07:00     Subject: Re:DC clears homeless near K Street
Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of these "homeless" people are so mentally ill that they are truly unable to adequately care for themselves. In the not-so-distant past, society had a means of taking care of these people: mental institutions where these mentally ill people got food, medical care, and proper housing. Then all of a sudden, the liberals shut down these government-run institutions, and put these crazy people out on the streets....where they do drugs, create filthy "encampments", defecate on the sidewalks, and freeze to death in the winter.

So let's re-open (or build new) mental hospitals where these sad unfortunate people can be taken care of....whether they like it or not.

It's for their own good. And for ours too.

There's an excellent video on the subject. It's an hour long, and it's called "Seattle Is Dying". It's on YouTube.


I know the GOP is currently running away from Ronald Wilson Reagan’s legacy, but I did not know that y’all now consider the late POTUS a liberal. Interesting.