#2 You presume homeless people are concentrated in downtown DC, without realizing that Columbia Heights/Adams Morgan (as well as other residential neighborhoods) have a huge number of "transitional" homes for formerly homeless people.

#3 There is no discussion about why exactly people oppose the idea of organizations serving homeless clients in their neighborhoods other than the vague claim that it is not the type of development the neighborhoods want.

While I'd agree that Central Union is dated in the way they address homeless, they still play a vital city role that very few government and nongovernment leaders are willingly to address.

The elephant is the room is simply this, homeless people are modern day lepers. They are society's outcasts, and we have the preconceived notion of what a homeless person is like. A notion that's shattered if you actually befriended a person who used to live on the street.

There are actually 2 elephants. Let me get up on this rickity soapbox is say it, this is all simply unChristian behavior. No different than pushing away gay clients during the mid 80s.

People toss around the NIMBY label like it's white professionals who have been throwing a fit about the shelter. Almost EVERYONE in the neighborhood opposed it. which was decided w/o consulting anyone first. It's unlikely that they would have done that with, say, GTown of Cleveland Park.

The CUM is nice group of folks but they have been doing the same thing for over 100 years. Giant men's homeless shelter ain't going to solve homelessness so I appreciate that Fenty coupled the annoucement with his new plan to actually fight the problem.

Fast forward 20 years later, and GOOD NEWS society's shunned wont be living in a shelter in Ward 1. GOOD NEWS it's not in my ward.

GOOD NEWS! A solid grass roots victory!