WAMU: Southeast D.C. Residents Protest A Planned Shelter

Community members voice opposition to another mainstreet homeless shelter

This was posted a week ago but I am just now getting around to it.

Check out this segment by WAMU's Emily Friedman on Ward 8's opposition to another social service facility coming to the Anacostia business district. Includes interviews with ANC Commissioner Greta Fuller and yours truly (who for some reason can't stop saying "twittering" lol).

Go HERE to listen to the segment and read the article. 
Excerpt:

Calvary Women's Services, a local non-profit, which provides housing and support services to women, is currently building a transitional home on the 1200 block of Good Hope Road. Greta Fuller, ANC08(03) commissioner, says this block is "really the main place that's gonna spur revitalization and growth for Anacostia. But, it will never get revitalized if we continue to get social service programs that don't add revenue." 

Within a 5-block radius of this block, there are at least 20 social service agencies, including Bread for the City, Good Hope Road Youth Center, a program for ex-offenders, and Good Hope Institute, one of the only methadone clinics in the metropolitan area.

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