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@Patrick

I am generally a good and reasonable person but if I hear one more thing about this has been in the works for "years" and yet Calvary didn't even bother to include anyone in Anacostia (or anywhere as we can tell) then I am going to lose it.

I wish I and my neighbors could be so cavalier about this but then again we aren't just "volunteering" or doing our "work study" in Anacostia just so we can go home to our nice neighborhoods sans shelters next door. Our main street is already saturated with these types of services and organizations. In the case of the viability of our business district there really isn't room for one more.

I wish I could have been so forgiving of what Hogwash accurately called "shiggity." This was platinum level shiggity. End of story. It looks bogus because it is bogus.

This 14,000 sf shelter will have a 24/7 childcare center on one side and a rehab support center on the other side. What shiggity is this? If someone from Calvary reached out to the community (not the other way around) they would have known this was short-sighted and frankly an insult to the work people are doing in Anacostia to bring businesses to the corridor so we could have jobs that could support the homeless and other social service recipients that we are currently supporting -- with no help. We have a shelter in Congress Heights and as a community we get 0 support, 0 aid, but plenty of loitering.

Screw us if you must but please don't ask us to be excited or thankful about it. We are not that ignorant or that desperate. Sometimes there are worse things than a vacant building.

We live here -- this is not a social experiment for us. We own homes here, we have businesses here we can't just move. We are invested here in more ways than dollars. Just because you can afford it doesn't mean you should buy it.

Have video of last night's ANC 8A meeting (where no one from Calvary bothered to show up) where the community is united in not wanting this at all on Good Hope Rd.

The land may be cheap but our community has value -- to us -- the people who actually LIVE here.

I don't mean to sound harsh but I have just about had it with people (regardless of how well meaning) being so generous with my neighborhood while they lay there head elsewhere.

by The Advoc8te on Aug 3, 2011 11:11 am • link • report

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