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D.C. housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn’t gone as planned.
Washington Post ^ | April 16, 2019 | Peter Jamison

Posted on 04/17/2019 6:14:25 AM PDT by C19fan

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To: yldstrk; blu

:: the homeless are untreated mental patients ::

And, Michigan is re-starting the “mental illness hotline”. I can’t wait to report my first observation of “gender dysphoria”.
Splody Heads


21 posted on 04/17/2019 6:42:34 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic, Anthropogenic Climate Alterations: The acronym explains the science.)
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To: C19fan

Leftards believe in determinism and behaviorism. Fix the environment and you fix the person.


22 posted on 04/17/2019 6:46:19 AM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS.. Now theres cops and sh*t in what used to be a nice apartment building. Stop helping the homeless! They are homeless for a reason. and dont cherry pick one or 2 homeless families that really are there because of bad luck. 99% of them can’t hold a job do to drugs, alcohol, bad sexual choices or mental issues . I personally knew a homeless man in a wheel chair, he had back problems. he could have gotten a job at walmart as a a door person, the local government offered him housing and help getting a job. his excuse? I dont want to live in those apartments and whos gonna hire me? He CHOSE to live in his car and beg outside the KFC for meals, even though he got a disability check!! 99% of all homeless people are self screwed!!!!!


23 posted on 04/17/2019 6:48:26 AM PDT by Ikeon (The first step in getting out of a hole is to throw away the shovel, and.. never touch it again!!)
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To: C19fan

The social engineers who dream this crap up are the same o es who dreamed it up in the early 1950s. The results never change. Real engineers learn from experiments and adjust; social engineers are immune to real world results and continue their child-like beliefs.


24 posted on 04/17/2019 6:50:22 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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...living in more desirable neighborhoods.

The neighborhood is the people living there, not the houses.

25 posted on 04/17/2019 6:52:19 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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Just wait until we stuff 150 MS-13 illegals into that same building.


26 posted on 04/17/2019 6:52:33 AM PDT by MrEdd (Caveat Emptor)
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Always follow the money.
That changed two years ago, when D.C. housing officials dramatically increased the value of rental subsidies.
The scam has run it's course unless the owners can convince HUD to renovate on the gruberment dime.
27 posted on 04/17/2019 6:57:51 AM PDT by SanchoP (Why does DC hate Americans so much ?)
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Same thing happened in France when they tried to mainstream criminals, thugs, reprobates, slugs, druggies and other assorted human debris.

The BOOK says you have not because you ask not. Maybe so. You also have not because you try and work not.

We have spent TRILLIONS to create opportunity and aid of all sorts. It has not worked out very well at all. The material is damaged. All the money is a bad investment for the most part. The effort has produced very little in the way of good sustainable results.


28 posted on 04/17/2019 7:02:22 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just hava few days that don't suck.)
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To: C19fan

Pool ? No the Pond would be better for you


29 posted on 04/17/2019 7:05:21 AM PDT by butlerweave
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Gentrification is one way of saying “Gaytrification”. Many gay couples buy up properties to remodel them. They will fight homeless shelters and Section 8 like it is a war.


30 posted on 04/17/2019 7:06:10 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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To: C19fan

Am I the only one who can’t read the WaPo link?


31 posted on 04/17/2019 7:50:15 AM PDT by RWGinger (Does anyone else really)
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To: yldstrk

Those are the obviously homeless that you see and can identify as such on the streets.

Now plenty of working poor and near-working poor are in the system as well. And often they have less desirable habits as apartment residents and neighbors as well.


32 posted on 04/17/2019 7:51:59 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Give a homeless person an upscale apartment for free.
That person has no skin in the game. That person cares not (?) what happens with the property

What could go wrong???


33 posted on 04/17/2019 8:15:45 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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Now plenty of working poor and near-working poor are in the system as well. And often they have less desirable habits as apartment residents and neighbors as well.


As I was reading this, I kept thinking, they’re not just describing homeless people with all of the issues that they bring to the party, but public housing residents in general. When first built, lots of urban high-rise public housing projects were, in fact, pretty nice. After all, wealthy people in big cities live in high-rises. But the culture of the tenants is quite different. The wealthy tend not to foul their own nests so to speak by throwing trash in the hallways and urinating in the elevators.


34 posted on 04/17/2019 8:17:56 AM PDT by hanamizu
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Gay couples are often prominent in the first wave of gentrification because they typically have two incomes, no kids, no worries about school districts, and a somewhat higher threshold of risk regarding personal safety, especially if it is two men. Singles and young couples without children are next; this is the point at which a neighborhood starts to become chic, and dogwalkers start to chase the junkies out of the local park. Families with children are the last wave. For them, a lot depends on the school situation.


35 posted on 04/17/2019 8:18:15 AM PDT by sphinx
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Yet another nitwit LIB “program” is bitten by reality. What a pathetic joke.


36 posted on 04/17/2019 8:19:43 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: hanamizu

Yep. Unfortunately.


37 posted on 04/17/2019 8:26:59 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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Conspicuously gay couples bring scorn from the local urban sophisticates. They already risk losing their room to them when their landlord cashes in. I know several people who have endured this. The pioneers get the arrows.

They will not tolerate “homophobia” from a church several states away but they will take it from disenfranchised people on the same block.


38 posted on 04/17/2019 8:27:13 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston?)
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1) Some friends and I rented a townhouse in a brand new complex. Fast forward a few months. The inner core of townhouses were a mess with crap strewn all over the place. The outer ring of townhouses (including ours) were neat and well maintained. Onsite property man explained> the City paid the rent for inner core townhomes on behalf of welfare types. Non-welfare tenants paid full market cost.
2) Dad was a Masonry contractor. He performed masonry repair on City owned townhomes. Dad comes home one hot summer day, pissed. Sixty years old repairing a porch in the blazing sun. Around 1pm 25 year old dude comes out in his PJ’s, drinking a cold beer. Tells my Dad, “sure must be tough working on a hot day like today”


39 posted on 04/17/2019 8:28:15 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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Unexpected!

*Drink*


40 posted on 04/17/2019 8:29:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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