the Other 35 Percent: Latest Peacoholics Drama

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" Housing Complex has an interesting piece today about the latest in what seems
to be a neverending drama about the Peacoholics. It involves their building a 13-unit transitional living facility for at-risk youth, apparently with funds stemming from the D.C. Department of Housing and Community Development in Ward 8's Congress Heights.

The story is the same we've heard again and again about Peacoholics. It's not that people object to their mission - in fact, they'd find a lot of support from just about everyone. It's not even NIMBYism. Rather, the issues with Peacoholics come down to this every single time:

Confrontational approach. Peacoholics and its leaders seem to take an adversarial, confrontational, and defensive approach to addresssing the community. Although any other group involved in a development project would come before the Advisory Neighborhood Commission and explain the project to residents, and seek their support at the get-go (the project across the street from theirs indeed did so), Peacoholics addressed the community only after controversy erupted and was summoned by the ANC. As described in the article, they sat in the back of the ANC meeting, didn't introduce themselves, then lashed out when questioned about their finances. Ultimately, they accused an ANC Commissioner of seeking bribes from them and sued her for defamation. I've witnessed a similar meeting in Shaw."

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