...occupied by a slovenly ghost
Posted on 04/17/2019 6:14:25 AM PDT by C19fan
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, a stately apartment building in Northwest Washington.
But the Art Deco complex, which overlooks Rock Creek Park and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is today the troubled locus of a debate on housing policy in a city struggling with the twin crises of homelessness and gentrification.
Located in affluent Cleveland Park and designed by Mihran Mesrobian — the prewar architect behind such Washington landmarks as the Hay-Adams Hotel — Sedgwick Gardens was once out of reach for low-income District residents.
That changed two years ago, when D.C. housing officials dramatically increased the value of rental subsidies. 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Really??? The results of this social engineering was obvious from day 1 for anyone with half a brain.
This happened because the homeless are untreated mental patients. It is a complete disgrace.
Congrats. I’d think they’d had burned it down by now.
It’s gone exactly how we predicted this would go.
“Didn’t go as planned” means “did go as expected.”
Truly baffling. Whodathunkit? People that know no value for things, taken from a sewer, are expected to live a life of culture and elegance. This ain't Pygmalion.
These "creatures" who live in the streets: addicts, insane, pathologically lazy; they cannot be reformed. That is the life they choose. And will not be dissuaded.
And for liberals to insist that to segregate the nation's unwashed and unwanted is tantamount to discrimination? Again, that just underscores the idiocy inherent in liberalism.
They can be reformed but that would require housing them in mental hospitals often against their will. But those days died with “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”.
Yet another example of the ignorance and naivete’ of liberals. They’re just not very sharp.
These “creatures” who live in the streets: addicts, insane, pathologically lazy; they cannot be reformed. That is the life they choose. And will not be dissuaded.
And for liberals to insist that to segregate the nation’s unwashed and unwanted is tantamount to discrimination? Again, that just underscores the idiocy inherent in liberalism.
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No dude, this is not “the life they choose”; it is the life they are relegated to because they are ill, mentally ill, untreated, left to fend haplessly for themselves. It is a national disgrace.
Progressives do not have to held accountable for the results of their policies. They just come back and ask for more money to fix the problems they have created.
...occupied by a slovenly ghost
I want (demand) a unicorn that shoots rainbow skittles out its rear.
I disagree. They choose it. But whatever. Dude.
Most homeless people are homeless for a reason. Personal squalor.
They are addicts. The only possible reform is cultural and spiritual.
It’s mostly a drug problem. If you don’t deal with the drug issue first, putting them in public housing just moves the problem to the public housing. See the last 20% of the video at the link above for a proposed solution that has a good track record.
Are you paying attention?
Get ready.
Regards,
D.J.T.
Gotta keep these folks outta the asylums.
The guilt that the remaining Kennedys feel must continue to be assuaged.
“That approach calls for placing the homeless in long-term housing without first requiring treatment for mental illness or addiction. Many experts say it is the best way to help people who have trouble helping themselves amid the chaos of homelessness.
But as housing first has emerged as a national policy consensus, some have begun to warn that it is being applied too broadly and at times with inadequate support for people who aren’t ready for the independence and responsibilities of living by themselves.”
Gee. YA THINK? Oy! These Holier-Than-Thou Social Engineers!
“Many experts say...” *SNORT*
A few years ago I did some site work on a new upscale apartment complex in a nice suburb of Minneapolis.
I asked the manager why there were so many junk cars in the parking lot since the rent was very high and people like that usually drive nice stuff.
He said in order to get the project approved they had to give a percentage of the apartments to Section 8 people.
He was very annoyed about it.
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