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@AWalkerInTheCity:

Not sure how it plays out nationally, but it's pretty clear that in the DC metro area, poor folks are pretty mobile, and respond to local social service spending. Otherwise moving this particular shelter wouldn't be under discussion. It would stay in NW, because that's where the under-served population would be. Getting from the 14th Street Corridor to Anacostia is arguably more difficult than getting from 14th Street to Silver Spring.

If tomorrow, some evil bastard were elected, and he imposed the kind of anti-poor policies that you see in most wealthy, conservative suburbs, we'd see a dramatic reduction in the number of homeless folks in the city. Because DC would then be marginally less attractive than, say, Rosslyn, Crystal City, or Silver Spring.

That won't happen (thank God) but policies have consequences.

by oboe on Dec 16, 2011 12:17 pm • link • report

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