13-18, and others are scheduled until November. Many D.C. 3-5, where a team of workers from the departments of behavioral health, human services, police, public works and transportation cleaned out the tented areas. There was an official encampment cleanup between Aug. law, homeless people can’t establish an outside abode without the mayor’s consent. Still, Garcia wondered why they were pushed out in the first place.īut, according to D.C. The inhabitants were given two weeks notice about the removal. Two weeks ago, the local government closed encampments in Georgetown and Foggy Bottom. In an exclusive report, WTOP examines why the men choose to be there. He’s lived there for seven months, in an encampment with at least six other men.ĭozens of encampments are scattered around the city, according to the Department of Health, even though D.C. Garcia, like many others, lives under a bridge along Rock Creek Parkway. “It helps keep the voices away,” Garcia said, rattling a bottle with a few pills left inside.
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He takes medication to silence those demons. To get funds for his medicine, he treks to Virginia Avenue to ask drivers for help. There are marks on his wrists where he has cut himself. Those voices tell him to commit suicide, to jump in front of a car or leap from a bridge. Garcia still bears the physical and psychological scars of the trauma. He says he was hit on the head with a baseball bat and needed surgery as a result. Then, in 2013, Garcia was attacked at the corner of Georgia and Florida avenues in Northwest. WASHINGTON - Carmelo Garcia moved to the District more than 10 years ago, working cleaning jobs wherever he could to make ends meet. Business & Finance Click to expand menu.It's not going away unless and until some major regime changes happen. Instead, it's offering a crummy ditch that would need seven figures in improvements before you could pitch a tent on it.Įnjoy the view, folks. Metro won't even let the city use its parking lot. Last week I lamented that Metro was demanding too much rent from the city, but it's actually worse than that. Then there is the absurd "Metro" government, which is being a jerk about letting one of the managed camps be sited at its creaky old Expo Center. Hordes of "nonprofit" bobbleheads will feast at the trough. At the rate this is moving, the city will never make it back to life, even with the $2 billion-plus in new taxes that are about to be poured down the rat hole that is the homeless industrial complex. Meanwhile, Nigel of the Weed files this disturbing report, revealing the hideous thicket of ethically challenged bureaucracy that surrounds the whole homeless relief operation in Portland. It's the current scene at the camp down by the abandoned Greyhound station. Meanwhile, a fellow who says he's running for city council posts on YouTube this depressing video (some displayed language NSFW) showing neighbors of the prospective campsites what they can expect to see once they get set up. But it sure has a Sam Adams odor to it, doesn't it? Including the City Council fall guy on tent squatters, Dan Ryan. Instead of six "safe rest village" sites, as promised months ago, they've announced only three, and now it turns out that one of those is in a flood zone, which means it won't work. The City of Portland's vague gestures toward setting up managed homeless camps are getting nowhere fast.
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