Right, folks, get this Washington Post headline, d C housed the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn't gone as planned. Now, this story covers the upscale Sedge Gardens apartment building in northwest Washington, near fashionable Rock Creek Park. It's listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Now here's where it gets good. A couple of years ago, Washington d C housing officials fattened the pot of money available for rental subsidies.
Their goal was to give tenants in high crime, impoverished neighborhoods a shot at moving out of there and moving into high end housing. What could go wrong? Well, some of these tenants moved into sedgwate Gardens directly from homeless shelters or the streets, and big surprise, they brought their behavioral problems with them. Police visits to the building quadruple. There is pot, smoke in the air, feces in the stairways like in San Francisco. There were so many complaints
the city started staffing the building with social work. Longtime residents got the heck out. Now, whose idea was this? You see? This is liberal thinking, this is liberal planning, this is liberal policy. This outcome is totally predictable. It would almost be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic for the people who were forced out, the people who were paying to be there.