re: D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned.

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The SWAT team, the overdose, the complaints of pot smoke in the air and feces in the stairwell — it would be hard to pinpoint a moment when things took a turn for the worse at Sedgwick Gardens,

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I'm going to go out on a limb and say it was when...

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D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments.

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And then there's this...

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twin crises of homelessness and gentrification.

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Some tenants with vouchers say they have been made to feel unwelcome by their new neighbors, a dynamic that has unavoidable undertones of race and class in a largely white neighborhood.

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No bias here, move along.

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At Sedgwick Gardens, the effort met with wild success.

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Exactly how was "success" being defined?

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Obama was pushing for this exact thing via HUD. He was trying to push for section 8 housing in upper class neighborhoods because he said it magically made those section 8 people want to be accountants and software engineers

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Thank God that effort failed. Obama and his idiots seemed to think you can take part of a tumor out and put it in a healthy part of the body, and everything will be fine. Real life doesn't work that way.

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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.

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What kind of "community support" is going to make a difference? No matter how much is given to them or how much is done for them they will never be a responsible part of society until forced to do so.

Romans would just kill these mother frickers.

Liberals are so ignorant.

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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

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It’s called “fair” in liberal unicorn land

Awesome concept libs. Instead of centralizing the majority of crime let’s spread it throughout the city.

They need to let them live in the high end housing and really make a statement.

Liberals are stupid.

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I'm sure there a few homeless people out there who are really trying to better themselves but I'd be willing to bet it's about 1%.

The other 99% got there because of bad life choices

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Seattle Is Dying.

I was wondering when this would show up. I live one block away from that building. Here's a picture of it that I took in 2017 when I was exploring the neighborhood:



A few pertinent points:

1. Cleveland Park voted 95% for Hillary Clinton in 2016.

2. Those of us who live west of Rock Creek Park do so because it's a more exclusive area with lower crime and better amenities (me, I just got lucky and found a relatively cheap place ). There is a definite segregation between those west and those east of RCP.

3. Read the top comments on the Post article. Even die hard liberals aren't that dumb--but in general, their predictable response is that the District needs to spend even more money on mental health services. While DC isn't as bad as San Francisco or Seattle, it's on its way there as far as overspending on the homeless goes.

4. Last night, a 94-year old woman was stabbed just down the street from this building, even though she gave her assailant her wallet and phone. 'I Was in Shock': 94-Year-Old Woman Stabbed During Robbery Near Cleveland Park Metro

5. Here's what some of the locals think about it

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I posted this link a few weeks ago; I live in the area and there has been a lot of local discussion about it. Everyone should watch this and see what will happen when the libs let the junkies do what they want.

I agree with the statement about cutting the tumor out and moving it to another area of the body. It just doesn't work.