Speaker 1: Right, folks, get this Washington Post headline, d C housed
Speaker 1: the homeless in upscale apartments. It hasn't gone as planned. Now,
Speaker 1: this story covers the upscale Sedge Gardens apartment building in
Speaker 1: northwest Washington, near fashionable Rock Creek Park. It's listed on
Speaker 1: the National Register of Historic Places. Now here's where it
Speaker 1: gets good. A couple of years ago, Washington d C
Speaker 1: housing officials fattened the pot of money available for rental subsidies.
Speaker 1: Their goal was to give tenants in high crime, impoverished
Speaker 1: neighborhoods a shot at moving out of there and moving
Speaker 1: into high end housing. What could go wrong? Well, some
Speaker 1: of these tenants moved into sedgwate Gardens directly from homeless
Speaker 1: shelters or the streets, and big surprise, they brought their
Speaker 1: behavioral problems with them. Police visits to the building quadruple.
Speaker 1: There is pot, smoke in the air, feces in the
Speaker 1: stairways like in San Francisco. There were so many complaints
Speaker 1: the city started staffing the building with social work. Longtime
Speaker 1: residents got the heck out. Now, whose idea was this?
Speaker 1: You see? This is liberal thinking, this is liberal planning,
Speaker 1: this is liberal policy. This outcome is totally predictable. It
Speaker 1: would almost be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic for
Speaker 1: the people who were forced out, the people who were
Speaker 1: paying to be there.