Anonymous wrote: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants more low-cost housing in affluent city neighborhoods. The goal, officials say, is to correct a history of “racially discriminatory” housing policy.

How is this policy going to end up any different than when Bowser put formerly homeless people alongside long-term residents in apt buildings up and down Connecticut Ave? They think they are helping when in reality they are conducting social experiments without adequate support for the people affected. How is Lafayette or Murch going to accept hundreds of new students?? What about Deal and Wilson?

How can residents in "Rock Creek West" express their concern with this new policy? Is Cheh going to listen? What about those of us that are stuck with Bowser's lackey Brandon Todd in Ward 4??

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Anonymous wrote:Curious - has she opened her home to anyone? Guessing she has the same English basement as all of us that she could "voucher" out. No?

Adopting a child doesn’t count as opening your home to someone?

I assume she considers her child a member of her family so no.

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Because this ain't about PG County doofus. DC residents need affordable housing and it's not Angela Alsobrooks and the folks in PG County's job to take care of DC residents. Are you that stupid?

Why can't existing DC residents move to affordable PG county if they truly can't find an affordable apartment in the District? Why do they need to move to Cleveland Park instead?

Affluent DC residents leave DC all the time for Maryland. It's fine for poor people to move, too. This isn't an inherently tragic scenario.

Damn you just cold-blooded huh?

DC’s low-income families with housing challenges are working moms, people with disabilities relying on fixed incomes, and single adults in low-wage service-sector jobs. Many low-income renters are seniors or have a disability and must rely on low fixed incomes. Social Security benefits average just $15,000 in DC which is barely enough to afford $400 a month in rent.
But your attitude is basically, "Fcuk em, they need to pack their shit and move."

Struggling to make rent each month often means cutting back on groceries, putting off medical care, living on the brink of eviction, and being under constant stress which makes it hard for children to learn in school and for adults to perform well at work. Families may find themselves moving from place to place, losing belongings, and ending up in a neighborhood with even more challenges than their prior locale.
But your attitude is basically, "Fcuk em, they need to pack their shit and move."

Very young children who move frequently do worse than their peers on measures of behavioral school readiness, such as attention and healthy social behavior. They are more likely than others to fall behind and drop out of school. Families who have trouble paying the rent or live doubled-up are more likely to delay medical care or filling needed prescriptions, and are more likely to report being depressed.
But your attitude is basically, "Fcuk em, they need to pack their shit and move."

If this were happening to an area in West Virginia where all the pricey $300,000 condos going up were forcing low-income white families out of trailer parks I'm betting your attitude would be different...
"That is so awful they can't just come in and price people out of their own cities and communities"

But since the District’s severely cost burdened, extremely low-income renters are primarily African-American and most of the rest are Latino the reaction is significantly more subdued.
"Oh well, fcuk em. Those non-white folks need to pack their shit and move they can always just to go to PG County."

Cold-blooded.

This isn't a poetry slam, pal.

Yes, it is absolutely my position that nobody has a right to live at a particular address. There are many addresses currently available to lower income people. In fact, it's where they're already living right now. There isn't a housing shortage for low-income people in the general DMV.

My position

1. Concentrating poor people in already poor areas reinforces economic (and usually racial) segregation, and is bad for our society
2. PG County will NOT be able to provide all the housing needed by poor people in this region
3. Longer commutes for poor people is not a good thing.

I'd add that they're not good for any of us. They lead to more traffic, worse air quality, etc.

My cleaning lady owns her own small business. She drives in with her cleaning crew all the way from Gaithersburg to our NW DC home. I'd be totally happy if people like her could afford to live in my neighborhood via affordable housing.

Anonymous wrote:There's tons of affordable housing in PG country, but I guess we're supposed to pretend that doesn't exist.

Anonymous wrote:There's tons of affordable housing in PG country, but I guess we're supposed to pretend that doesn't exist.

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Anonymous wrote:Remember this?

https://wapo.st/2ZfAKtq

Yes, and the city should learn from that, fix it, and do it better next time.

Good luck with that

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Anonymous wrote:Remember this?

https://wapo.st/2ZfAKtq

Yes, and the city should learn from that, fix it, and do it better next time.

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Because this ain't about PG County doofus. DC residents need affordable housing and it's not Angela Alsobrooks and the folks in PG County's job to take care of DC residents. Are you that stupid?

Why can't existing DC residents move to affordable PG county if they truly can't find an affordable apartment in the District? Why do they need to move to Cleveland Park instead?

Affluent DC residents leave DC all the time for Maryland. It's fine for poor people to move, too. This isn't an inherently tragic scenario.

Damn you just cold-blooded huh?

DC’s low-income families with housing challenges are working moms, people with disabilities relying on fixed incomes, and single adults in low-wage service-sector jobs. Many low-income renters are seniors or have a disability and must rely on low fixed incomes. Social Security benefits average just $15,000 in DC which is barely enough to afford $400 a month in rent.
But your attitude is basically, "Fcuk em, they need to pack their shit and move."

Struggling to make rent each month often means cutting back on groceries, putting off medical care, living on the brink of eviction, and being under constant stress which makes it hard for children to learn in school and for adults to perform well at work. Families may find themselves moving from place to place, losing belongings, and ending up in a neighborhood with even more challenges than their prior locale.
But your attitude is basically, "Fcuk em, they need to pack their shit and move."

Very young children who move frequently do worse than their peers on measures of behavioral school readiness, such as attention and healthy social behavior. They are more likely than others to fall behind and drop out of school. Families who have trouble paying the rent or live doubled-up are more likely to delay medical care or filling needed prescriptions, and are more likely to report being depressed.
But your attitude is basically, "Fcuk em, they need to pack their shit and move."

If this were happening to an area in West Virginia where all the pricey $300,000 condos going up were forcing low-income white families out of trailer parks I'm betting your attitude would be different...
"That is so awful they can't just come in and price people out of their own cities and communities"

But since the District’s severely cost burdened, extremely low-income renters are primarily African-American and most of the rest are Latino the reaction is significantly more subdued.
"Oh well, fcuk em. Those non-white folks need to pack their shit and move they can always just to go to PG County."

Cold-blooded.

This isn't a poetry slam, pal.

Yes, it is absolutely my position that nobody has a right to live at a particular address. There are many addresses currently available to lower income people. In fact, it's where they're already living right now. There isn't a housing shortage for low-income people in the general DMV.