shades of Fountainhead...
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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It is all going to plan. The left wants to destroy Western society and this is one of their ways of doing it.
shades of Fountainhead...
So, putting the mentally dysfunctional into nice apartments does not magically change their behavior and make them become model citizens. Interesting, who would have thunk?
Also, I don’t understand the negativity used with the concept of “gentrification.” Seems to me that improving neighborhoods is a good thing.
“We can make this whole cycle way more efficient by simply housing the foxes with the chickens.” /s
And those who have a problem with this transformation of the building are automatically racist. And those who actually move out because of what is happening will soon be labeled and prosecuted for crimes against the diversification collective. sarc/ I hope.
Once again, low information liberals think they can make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and they failed.
Has any grandiose liberal fantasy ever borne fruit? (It's a rhetorical question.)
Hope these upscale apartments are liberal bleeding hearts
Will it worked for Billy Ray Valentine.
Half? Half? Half? And some people wonder why there is a problem?
The article references a study that says DC has the most intense gentrification of any U.S. city. I know we have gentrification on steroids, and it's generally a good thing. Viewed broadly, DC still has an excessively high percentage of the region's low-income population. If we've learned anything over the past 50 years, it is that big concentrations of welfare populations breed trouble. That was one of the core mistakes of the Great Society wave of housing projects, which created Petri dishes for disfunction. We are still dismantling that mistake. In the DC area, more of the assisted housing population still needs to be spread to the suburbs. And yes, northwest DC needs to do more as well. Move 'em out. Anacostia is trying to gentrify as well. They've gotta go somewhere.
Spreading out the welfare population is the goal, and every area needs to step up. Housing vouchers at 175 percent of fair market rate, however, are awfully rich. I didn't know DC was doing that. The problem with that is moral hazard; welfare shouldn't pay better than an entry level job or it becomes a trap. We should have learned that lesson as well over the past half-century. But put that aside for the moment.
If the goal is to assist the welfare population in moving out of disastrous neighborhoods, fine … but don't move them and then reconcentrate them in what becomes essentially a new project, albeit one in a swankier neighborhood. That won't work. I don't have a magic percentage in mind, but if this building has 140 units, maybe five could safely be converted to voucher apartments, provided that the recipients were suitably screened (no gangbangers). But half is far too many. And subsidies of 175 percent market rate are ridiculous.
It looks to me like this building's owners are badly mismanaging their property. 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. I'll have to wait for more information on that.
Apparently no one in charge asked this simple question during the planning stage: “What could possibly go wrong?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8pfftpp0lY
John Sedley is a man with a disfigured face, mocked by others as "Johnny Handsome." He and a friend are double-crossed by two accomplices in a crime, Sunny Boyd and her partner Rafe, and a Judge sends Johnny to jail, where he vows to get even once he gets out. In prison, Johnny meets a surgeon named Fisher, who is looking for a guinea pig so he can attempt an experimental procedure in reconstructive cosmetic surgery. Johnny, figuring he has nothing to lose, is given a new, normal-looking face (making him unrecognizable to the people who knew him) before he is released back into society.
it doesn't end well for johnnys enemies or anyone else he comes in contact with
Actually, Washington DC is racist in total and has been for many years. Congress allows, even promotes the racist society in Washington.
Washington DC is the Plantation where civil rights were a forced population change
No, that was a PRIVATE SECTOR initiative!
Where is Nurse Ratched when you need her?
True; but the underlaying theme of the movie was DEFINITELY a look at Political Policies!
Liberals have been miseducated to believe that all people are good. They are wrong.
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