Posted on 04/23/2019 3:45:53 AM PDT by Libloather
WASHINGTON - 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.
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But the situation at Sedgwick Gardens is different: Many of the new tenants are homeless men and women who came directly from shelters or the streets, some still struggling with severe behavioral problems.
The result has been a kind of high-stakes social experiment that so far has left few of its subjects happy. Police visits to the building have nearly quadrupled since 2016. Some tenants have fled. In February, responding to complaints, the city began staffing the building with social workers at night to deal with problems that arise.
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It's probably a form of "blockbusting", clever in that the investors have figured out how to trick the taxpayers into paying for it.
Anyone see this coming? Certainly not any experts.
I don't suppose it could have been when the first homeless people moved in, could it?
While the Army has tons of tents just sitting around in storage
"Looking good, Billy Ray!"
Evidence of SJW with power, who have gone postal.
Any adult with any savvy would have known this is exactly what was to be expected from this sort of effort.
People involved with setting this up will now be the ones who will come up with fixes that will be equally bad or worse in the end.
They should be jettisoned from any position of authority from here on out.
Segwick Gardens used to be nice like 8-9 yrs ago. I have been there.
Not in Sedgewick Gardens, no. He is in a walled fortress protected for life by the taxpayer-funded Secret Service.
Did you write that? Succinct!
Ninety percent of DC votes Democrat.
It all “bears fruit” but the fruit is rotten as it grows on the tree.
Today’s NSS (NO Sh** Sherlock) Award goes to the mental midget nitwits in WDC who came up with this worthless “idea”. Captain Obvious will be presenting the award later this afternoon.
Social Security is probably the longest running.
Nobody with a masters or doctorate outside of a hard science, that’s for sure.
I phrased my previous answer badly. Anyone could see it coming. But you need an advanced degree in a soft science to turn a blind eye to it.
"Some"? I can imagine. The rest are paying premium rents for a deteriorating environment provided by social justice. And as long as they keep voting for the idiots who do this sort of thing the problem will get worse.
Sounds like they’re trying to turn an upscale apartment building into an asylum. If you can move yourself out to a new home, it’s proof of your (relative) sanity.
You betcha! But feel free to repeat it.—S
Who put their coals out on my rug? This is a Persian rug. From Persia.
Uh…
...they ain’t ‘people’?
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