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damnatio_memoriae t1_j2ewwxd wrote

and what exactly is your solution for the human beings who would be displaced if you closed that shelter?

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foreverurgirl t1_j2f6frk wrote

I don’t need to have a solution for that to point out having so many Sex offenders concentrated in one place is problematic- esp in a “shelter” that kicks people out to wander during the day. Why don’t we create smaller men’s shelters and more transitional housing for them and spread them throughout the community… like Bloomingdale- oh wait you can’t bc of all the schools there. Work force training that prioritizes high risk Sex offenders because surely the most downtrodden would benefit from the leg up? Why don’t you offer space in your home to these poor lost souls?

Why does this neighborhood and the people that live there- including me at one point and not in the Douglas project in the real neighborhood- have to live in fear because of the transit and geographic isolation provides one of the only areas so many Sex offenders can actually live if they don’t have family here.

All of the development was welcome until it wasn’t exactly what empower dc wanted and now the area is losing business and resources because of neglect.

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