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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.

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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at m.chron.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: apartments; dc; dchomeless; democrats; homeless
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To: Libloather

Not as planned, but as expected by anyone with common sense.


21 posted on 04/23/2019 5:08:26 AM PDT by kosciusko51
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To: Libloather
Some people have to learn the hard way. Some don't. Some never learn.

The curse of high intelligence is having to watch the morons try everything that you know won't work.

If you could somehow make them understand that they are morons, they might listen to the more intelligent, but the curse of the morons is that they don't know they're morons.

22 posted on 04/23/2019 5:17:03 AM PDT by Savage Beast (The Trump Revolution is the Resistance to the Decadence of Western Civilization.)
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To: exDemMom
Seems to me that improving neighborhoods is a good thing.

Gentrification just moves the problem to a different neighborhood. Better off just putting up a fence around the bad areas.

23 posted on 04/23/2019 5:22:28 AM PDT by PAR35
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To: Savage Beast

They’re doing a version of this in schools, too, where they dump 8 or 9 Special Ed kids into the regular classroom, add one RSP teacher to “help” them, and then the regular teacher has to try and teach them along with the other kids. It’s not working very well.


24 posted on 04/23/2019 5:27:00 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady ( Political correctness forbids discussing any negative outcomes of Left-wing ideology. -PMcL)
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To: Libloather

staffing the building with social workers at night


“I just took a dump in the stair well.”
“Yes, but how did it make you feel?”
“Like I wish I’d had some toilet paper, man.”
“Here, let me get that for you.”


25 posted on 04/23/2019 6:02:58 AM PDT by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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To: Libloather

Nobody could have seen this coming.


26 posted on 04/23/2019 6:29:57 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: exDemMom

Also, I don’t understand the negativity used with the concept of “gentrification.” Seems to me that improving neighborhoods is a good thing.

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It is a good thing for all the liberals that infest Washington. Make no mistake, they love their gentrified neighborhoods and upscale living in the capitol city. They are elites in every sense of the word.


27 posted on 04/23/2019 6:32:44 AM PDT by Starboard
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To: Libloather

“some still struggling with severe behavioral problems.”

Translation - people doing as they please with no consequences other than being rewarded with tolerance and understanding for their disgusting behavior.


28 posted on 04/23/2019 6:37:20 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: sphinx

“As of February, tenants with city-issued housing vouchers had filled nearly half of the building’s roughly 140 units.”

The remaining units will soon be available as those tenants escape the newly created shithole.


29 posted on 04/23/2019 6:42:59 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: txrefugee

“Liberals have been miseducated to believe that all people are good.”

Really? How come they hate conservatives and Republicans?


30 posted on 04/23/2019 6:44:57 AM PDT by aquila48
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To: Libloather

It buys into the lie that given the same opportunity that a well off or middle class person has (they call it privilege) that you will get an equal outcome. It’s total BS. Ben Shapiro always puts it that the left don’t want equal opportunity (which the USA supplies in abundance) they want equality or outcome or equity. This is a perfect picture of why that rarely works


31 posted on 04/23/2019 6:49:00 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: melsec

Equality of outcome (apologies)


32 posted on 04/23/2019 6:50:33 AM PDT by melsec (There's a track, winding back, to an old forgotten shack along the road to Gundagai..)
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To: PAR35
...Gentrification just moves the problem to a different neighborhood. Better off just putting up a fence around the bad areas...

Why do poor troublemakers have the right to live in run-down but well located areas? No group has an inherent right to potentially valuable real estate.

If we want to move the bad area to a less desirable location and then build the fence, that works for me. But, we have to be able to reclaim residential areas in the cities.

33 posted on 04/23/2019 6:54:41 AM PDT by CurlyDave
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To: Libloather

The only thing I need to know is ...did th owners vote democrat!!!!


34 posted on 04/23/2019 7:00:17 AM PDT by ontap
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To: Libloather

They haven’t burned it down yet?


35 posted on 04/23/2019 7:06:42 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: Libloather

Silly liberals think they can pass a law and do away with genders so why not pass a wall changing human nature to what makes them feel good?


36 posted on 04/23/2019 7:07:16 AM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: LRoggy

With an initial venture capital investment of only one dollar!


37 posted on 04/23/2019 7:08:00 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Libloather
Sedgwick Gardens Apartments:


38 posted on 04/23/2019 7:12:07 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

I remember when Hillsboro, Calif was in need of affordable housing because they had none. No public transit either.


39 posted on 04/23/2019 7:19:07 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: Libloather

Staffing with social workers ! .... now that’s an effective solution!


40 posted on 04/23/2019 7:24:53 AM PDT by Reily
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