Reply #1: Half & I Streets, SW, is too choice a corner of real estate

[Laughing Mirror]

too close to tourists on the Mall and the Capitol grounds. Better to chase the homeless down Half Street and, if not into the river, then at least across it, over to the poor side of town, where they'll fit in better. Let them repopulate the once infamous St. Elizabeth's mental hospital. It was emptied out during Reagan, and seems to be converting now into a poorhouse.

It's like we're coming full circle. Re-gentrifying Southwest DC and chasing out what remains of the poor mostly chased out decades ago. There were 35,000 poor people cooped-up in rancid slums and shacks with outhouses within too close range to the federal part of town. The Southwest slums were too huge an embarassment to the post WW2 Capitol of the Free World for them to stand, and so the people had to go. Where? Chased to the other side of the Anacostia, just like now.

Half and I is too close-in. The City needs that $6.2 million from the sale of the property. The Corcoran will replace the homeless and their shelter with a stunning jewel of an edifice, no doubt, a showpiece of the Brave New World America.