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re: D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:30 pm to Dire Wolf
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:30 pm to Dire Wolf
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it would be hard to pinpoint a moment when things took a turn for the worse at Sedgwick Gardens, a stately apartment building in Northwest Washington.
i would say it was exactly when this decision was made
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D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments.
you can take the dindu out of the ghetto but you cant take the ghetto out of the dindu
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Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:31 pm to Dire Wolf
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That meant vouchers could be used for one-bedroom apartments renting at up to $2,648 a month, according to Housing Authority documents. At Sedgwick Gardens, the going rate for one-bedroom units was about $2,200 per month in 2017, according to a former tenant who moved in that year without public assistance
This is the wtf part to me. They get to stay for free in apartments that other people have to pay over $2k for? That's fricking crazy
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:32 pm to East Coast Band
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I would be pissed if I had to pay $1500/ month rent (or whatever it is) out of my own pocket, while a homeless guy gets to live at the same place for basically free.
"vouchers could be used for one-bedroom apartments renting at up to $2,648 a month"
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:32 pm to jchamil
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This is the wtf part to me. They get to stay for free in apartments that other people have to pay over $2k for? That's fricking crazy
Nah, crazy is getting a check cut to you every year on April 15th from the IRS after paying zero federal taxes.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:32 pm to upgrayedd
And people fought back on it hard because it might make a select few of those people a little better by being out of a bad situation but, by far, it just means those assholes being the bad situation with them.
To quote Ron White, “You can’t fix stupid.”
To quote Ron White, “You can’t fix stupid.”
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:32 pm to upgrayedd
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It's easy to think you're virtuous for supporting other people "solving the problem" with someone else's resources.
I liked how my liberal BIL told me years ago, he was OK paying higher taxes, so his own child could have a "good" school to go to. It was almost an all white school, FWIW.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:35 pm to Dire Wolf
What did they expect would happen? That the tenants would suddenly transform into doctors and accountants?
This post was edited on 4/18/19 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:38 pm to East Coast Band
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I liked how my liberal BIL told me years ago, he was OK paying higher taxes, so his own child could have a "good" school to go to. It was almost an all white school, FWIW.
My niece is in pre-school in the Bay Area. Her class is all white except for 2 Asian kids yet all the parents of those kids won't hesitate to lecture everyone on how diverse and inclusive they are - especially if they know you're from the south
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:42 pm to fillmoregandt
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What did they expect would happen? That the tenants would suddenly transform into doctors and accountants?
Well, yes. Rich and successful people are only rich and successful because they live in rich and successful areas.
If you put lazy and worthless people in rich and successful areas, they'll become rich and successful too.
Duh.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:42 pm to Dire Wolf
quote:people work their dicks off to be able to afford to live in a decent place in the city, only to be neighbors with these parasites who don't pay a thing
That meant vouchers could be used for one-bedroom apartments renting at up to $2,648 a month, according to Housing Authority documents. At Sedgwick Gardens, the going rate for one-bedroom units was about $2,200 per month in 2017, according to a former tenant who moved in that year without public assistance.
disgusting
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:42 pm to joshwj93
Outcomes are actually worse for poor people when you place them in mixed income housing.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:44 pm to Dire Wolf
Lol give a homeless person a $2600 a month apartment and they still shite outside.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 2:56 pm to Dire Wolf
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The goal was to give tenants who had previously clustered in impoverished, high-crime areas east of the Anacostia River a shot at living in more desirable neighborhoods.
This never ends well for the people living in that area.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 3:56 pm to Pilot Tiger
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They dumped a whole bunch of homeless and mentally ill people into "normal society" without having any kind of community support in place.
That’s what the vast majority of people don’t realize. 9 out of 10 homeless people are either mentally ill or junkies.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 3:59 pm to upgrayedd
Well, that administration was arse backwards.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:01 pm to Dire Wolf
When someone doesn't pay for something, they have no respect for it. This is why projects and public housing always turn into shitholes.
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:03 pm to upgrayedd
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Limousine liberals will never learn until we put the problems in their backyard
Lets do it everywhere the vote progressive and liberal
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:05 pm to upgrayedd
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Sure, but I'm sure it won't stop them from lambasting others who don't want section 8 in their neighborhoods.
I moved out of an apartment complex after they started accepting Section 8(they didn't when I moved in) and crime was on the up and up. and I had some people call me a racist. I rebutted with "How much Section 8 housing do you live by"
Posted on 4/18/19 at 4:08 pm to Dire Wolf
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