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@AWalkerInTheCity,

But I dont think either of those changes is terribly likely. the law is what it is...

Quite true, and obviously we're not going to see some sort of voluntary engagement by folks in the suburbs. Nor are we likely to see a change in national politics so long as poverty is concentrated in the city.

But since there's no way to achieve any kind of parity through explicit regional policies, we in DC need to stop our current practice of paying to keep our own poverty rate artificially high. If we spend less money, there will be a natural outflow of poverty into the suburbs.

Do I think--as @MG put it up-thread--that "we should move all shelters to MD & VA"? Obviously not. But there's no reason the poverty level in DC should be significantly higher than that of the immediately surrounding MD and VA suburbs. And we in DC have the ability to make that happen unilaterally.

by oboe on Dec 16, 2011 10:45 am • link • report

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