Anonymous
06/10/2024 00:32
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I supported the construction of the Brooks family shelter and have donated money and supplies, but I'm beginning to regret it. The shelter worked well for the first couple years, but it has been less well run this year. An increasing number of residents smoke weed and panhandle aggressively in front of the Giant. I also routinely witness them throwing trash, including used diapers, in the planters instead of nearby trash cans. If their basic needs are being met, why are they panhandling? And aren't drugs against the rules at the shelter? They are definitely illegal in public places. And I know it is people from the shelter because I've witnessed them returning there.
People who used to walk to the Giant are now driving to avoid the mess in front. What is the best approach to dealing with this?
Do you know how many buildings along Connecticut Avenue are now de facto homeless shelters? It’s absolutely criminal what our Ward Rep and ANCs have allowed to happen to a once safe and family friendly corridor.
In the process, they are pushing out workforce renters and seniors who have looked to older apartment buildings on Connecticut in Ward 3 for rent-stabilized housing. When a building owner accepts a DC voucher for a rental unit it takes that unit out of rent control. In time the whole building can be re-set to market rate rentals (or above market in the case of vouchers).
No. There was a law that overturned this. Now when the unit is vacated after being lived in by a voucher holder, the allowable rent that can be charged is the rent that would have been allowed if the rent control increases has been applied each year the voucher tenant love there. There was a WaPo article on this.
Anonymous
06/09/2024 23:56
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 remains a nice place to live and go to school. Many people in Cleveland Park do send their kids to private school after elementary though.
If you have a house, yes. Not at all for the people in apartments. That's why most of Ward 3--especially Frump--doesn't care.
The voucher holders were brought in to cause enough chaos that would incentivize white home owners so sell out cheaply
No. Not in the least. Our SFHs on the residential blocks behind Wisconsin, Connecticut and Mass Aves just keep going up in value and sell before they officially hit the market. For millions.
That said, I do a whole lot less walking to do errands now that the violent low-life quotient is so much higher. And I literally watch my back while IN the grocery store / CVS. Something I never felt the need to do WOTP from 1995 to 2019.
Even WTOP hot tailed it out of here to get the hell away from that shelter!
Anonymous
06/09/2024 21:06
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 remains a nice place to live and go to school. Many people in Cleveland Park do send their kids to private school after elementary though.
If you have a house, yes. Not at all for the people in apartments. That's why most of Ward 3--especially Frump--doesn't care.
The voucher holders were brought in to cause enough chaos that would incentivize white home owners so sell out cheaply
This is incorrect. The voucher holders were brought in to get building de rent controlled. That’s their only job and they will keep upping the number of vouchers, along with the violence and chaos they bring, until ever rent controlled tenant is gone.
So you’re saying that a plan supposedly intended to provide more affordable housing in time will lead to less affordable housing?
The whole program was set up around removing voucher units from rent control status.
Through all of the reporting on this not once has anyone spoken to building owners to get their views. The real estate industry has never been shy about making their feelings known and if they were unhappy with the program we would all know.
Anonymous
06/09/2024 20:32
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 remains a nice place to live and go to school. Many people in Cleveland Park do send their kids to private school after elementary though.
If you have a house, yes. Not at all for the people in apartments. That's why most of Ward 3--especially Frump--doesn't care.
The voucher holders were brought in to cause enough chaos that would incentivize white home owners so sell out cheaply
No. Not in the least. Our SFHs on the residential blocks behind Wisconsin, Connecticut and Mass Aves just keep going up in value and sell before they officially hit the market. For millions.
That said, I do a whole lot less walking to do errands now that the violent low-life quotient is so much higher. And I literally watch my back while IN the grocery store / CVS. Something I never felt the need to do WOTP from 1995 to 2019.
That’s interest rates. The market is effectively frozen for anything but all cash purchases. So it’s a little deceptive. Not much on the market in those circumstances, which lifts prices
DC spreading their addicts and mentally ill to Ward 3 isn’t going to do wonders for property owners over the medium term
Anonymous
06/09/2024 20:18
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Wegman’s is fortunate that it is tucked back into private property so management can keep the vagrants away. With Giant, the public sidewalk is right next to the store.
DC should change the law so that vagrants can’t panhandle within at least 30 - 40 feet of a business, apartment building or residence, and at least 200 feet from a school.
Anonymous
06/09/2024 20:14
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 remains a nice place to live and go to school. Many people in Cleveland Park do send their kids to private school after elementary though.
If you have a house, yes. Not at all for the people in apartments. That's why most of Ward 3--especially Frump--doesn't care.
The voucher holders were brought in to cause enough chaos that would incentivize white home owners so sell out cheaply
This is incorrect. The voucher holders were brought in to get building de rent controlled. That’s their only job and they will keep upping the number of vouchers, along with the violence and chaos they bring, until ever rent controlled tenant is gone.
So you’re saying that a plan supposedly intended to provide more affordable housing in time will lead to less affordable housing?
Anonymous
06/09/2024 19:42
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 remains a nice place to live and go to school. Many people in Cleveland Park do send their kids to private school after elementary though.
If you have a house, yes. Not at all for the people in apartments. That's why most of Ward 3--especially Frump--doesn't care.
The voucher holders were brought in to cause enough chaos that would incentivize white home owners so sell out cheaply
This is incorrect. The voucher holders were brought in to get building de rent controlled. That’s their only job and they will keep upping the number of vouchers, along with the violence and chaos they bring, until ever rent controlled tenant is gone.
Anonymous
06/09/2024 19:38
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 remains a nice place to live and go to school. Many people in Cleveland Park do send their kids to private school after elementary though.
If you have a house, yes. Not at all for the people in apartments. That's why most of Ward 3--especially Frump--doesn't care.
The voucher holders were brought in to cause enough chaos that would incentivize white home owners so sell out cheaply
No. Not in the least. Our SFHs on the residential blocks behind Wisconsin, Connecticut and Mass Aves just keep going up in value and sell before they officially hit the market. For millions.
That said, I do a whole lot less walking to do errands now that the violent low-life quotient is so much higher. And I literally watch my back while IN the grocery store / CVS. Something I never felt the need to do WOTP from 1995 to 2019.
A lot more Ward 3 residents seem to be doing their shopping in Friendship Heights and Bethesda than before.
Anonymous
06/09/2024 17:44
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 remains a nice place to live and go to school. Many people in Cleveland Park do send their kids to private school after elementary though.
If you have a house, yes. Not at all for the people in apartments. That's why most of Ward 3--especially Frump--doesn't care.
The voucher holders were brought in to cause enough chaos that would incentivize white home owners so sell out cheaply
No. Not in the least. Our SFHs on the residential blocks behind Wisconsin, Connecticut and Mass Aves just keep going up in value and sell before they officially hit the market. For millions.
That said, I do a whole lot less walking to do errands now that the violent low-life quotient is so much higher. And I literally watch my back while IN the grocery store / CVS. Something I never felt the need to do WOTP from 1995 to 2019.
Anonymous
06/09/2024 16:37
Subject: The Brooks
OP is the problem
Anonymous
06/09/2024 14:20
Subject: The Brooks
OP is part of the problem!
Anonymous
06/09/2024 14:15
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I think the electorate will have a very different perspective next election.
Doubt it. Most voters here are reflexively progressive and vote accordingly. I mean just look at who DC has been electing in recent years.
Even "progressives" are sick of crime, drugs, disorder and people taking dumps along public streets. If that's the Council's idea of welcoming inclusion, they can stuff it.
And that’s the only reason I want this to continue. Because DC residents voted for this. Every bit of it. And I want them to get exactly what they voted for. I want them to suffer. I want them miserable. I want them to get what they asked for.
+1
As horrible as it sounds I agree.
The OP of this thread was a good little liberal donated to the poors when they moved in to make themselves feel good. Liberals love a donation drive. Without the poors how are they going to feel good about themselves and how will people know what a great person they are if they can’t tell other about their donations.
Anonymous
06/09/2024 14:14
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wegman’s is fortunate that it is tucked back into private property so management can keep the vagrants away. With Giant, the public sidewalk is right next to the store.
I’ve seen a few panhandlers in front of the Wegmans!!
When? They have private security guards.
They sit at the lunch tables in front of the store and panhandle. I’ve seen it on several occasions.
Anonymous
06/09/2024 14:06
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Ward 3 remains a nice place to live and go to school. Many people in Cleveland Park do send their kids to private school after elementary though.
If you have a house, yes. Not at all for the people in apartments. That's why most of Ward 3--especially Frump--doesn't care.
The voucher holders were brought in to cause enough chaos that would incentivize white home owners so sell out cheaply
Anonymous
06/09/2024 13:45
Subject: The Brooks
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Wegman’s is fortunate that it is tucked back into private property so management can keep the vagrants away. With Giant, the public sidewalk is right next to the store.
I’ve seen a few panhandlers in front of the Wegmans!!
When? They have private security guards.