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District of Columbia housed homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn't gone as planned.
Washington Post (Democracy Dies In Darkness) via Chron ^ | 4/16/19 | Peter Jamison

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.

**SNIP**

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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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apartments; dc; dchomeless; democrats; homeless
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To: sphinx
There is a hint in the article about excessively generous vouchers being used to bust the cap on rent stabilization, which may be the real game here.

It's probably a form of "blockbusting", clever in that the investors have figured out how to trick the taxpayers into paying for it.

41 posted on 04/23/2019 7:30:18 AM PDT by Reeses (A journey of a thousand miles begins with a government pat down.)
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To: Libloather

Anyone see this coming? Certainly not any experts.


42 posted on 04/23/2019 7:34:43 AM PDT by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Libloather
...it would be hard to pinpoint a moment when things took a turn for the worse at Sedgwick Gardens...

I don't suppose it could have been when the first homeless people moved in, could it?

43 posted on 04/23/2019 7:38:10 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (Trump: "America will never be a socialist country!")
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To: Libloather

While the Army has tons of tents just sitting around in storage


44 posted on 04/23/2019 7:41:09 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: JZelle
Will it worked for Billy Ray Valentine.

"Looking good, Billy Ray!"

45 posted on 04/23/2019 7:43:01 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: knighthawk

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.


46 posted on 04/23/2019 7:43:32 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Libloather

Segwick Gardens used to be nice like 8-9 yrs ago. I have been there.


47 posted on 04/23/2019 8:13:42 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: Libloather
Hussein lives there, no?

Not in Sedgewick Gardens, no. He is in a walled fortress protected for life by the taxpayer-funded Secret Service.

48 posted on 04/23/2019 8:21:35 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In war, there can be no substitute for victory. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: Savage Beast
The curse of high intelligence is having to watch the morons try everything that you know won't work.

Did you write that? Succinct!

49 posted on 04/23/2019 8:32:04 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In war, there can be no substitute for victory. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: ontap
The only thing I need to know is ...did th owners vote democrat!!!!

Ninety percent of DC votes Democrat.

50 posted on 04/23/2019 8:34:21 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (In war, there can be no substitute for victory. --Douglas MacArthur)
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To: LouAvul

It all “bears fruit” but the fruit is rotten as it grows on the tree.


51 posted on 04/23/2019 9:09:23 AM PDT by arthurus (hH|-|=-><<<)
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To: arthurus

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.


52 posted on 04/23/2019 9:58:10 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: LouAvul

Social Security is probably the longest running.


53 posted on 04/23/2019 10:44:12 AM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: aquila48

Nobody with a masters or doctorate outside of a hard science, that’s for sure.


54 posted on 04/23/2019 10:46:23 AM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: aquila48

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.


55 posted on 04/23/2019 10:50:24 AM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Libloather
Some tenants have fled.

"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.

56 posted on 04/23/2019 10:54:18 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Reily

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.


57 posted on 04/23/2019 10:54:58 AM PDT by BradyLS (ODO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Albion Wilde

You betcha! But feel free to repeat it.—S


58 posted on 04/23/2019 11:45:12 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Trump Revolution is the Resistance to the Decadence of Western Civilization.)
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To: JZelle
Will it worked for Billy Ray Valentine.

Who put their coals out on my rug? This is a Persian rug. From Persia.

59 posted on 04/23/2019 11:51:11 AM PDT by Hyman Roth
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To: aquila48

Uh…

...they ain’t ‘people’?


60 posted on 04/23/2019 5:25:47 PM PDT by Elsie
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