As i recall the area of Above M Street between New York Ave & North Capitol Isnt public housing, The houses on New York Ave Between 1 ST & North Capitol are private property and by what was stated makes it sound like that is apart of this which it is not.

And for the people saying about how the people are using the system, do you know for a fact that everylast person in the area is using the system no you dont so you cant really make a judgement like that, that is being prejudice to people of a lower class

Consistently, crime is correlated with concentration of poor individuals, where hopelessness is everywhere and crime seems like a good option. In these places, the majority of law abiding citizens, are swamped by the presence of criminals above a tolerance. The most effective way of dealing with this has been pretty well proven to be lower densities of poor people, either mixed in with wealthier neighbors, or just over less land. The latter is clearly not an option. Restricting the inclusive housing to families, and providing useful community services often returns those on welfare to taxpayers. Rent-to own arrangements helps even more.

The alternative to crime and welfare getting paid minimum wage in thankless jobs that have no future. Since many young men are incarcerated, usually for regressive and wasteful drug charges, so can’t get good jobs anyway.
For sure, residents need to take responsibility for their actions but I seriously doubt that most people west of Rock Creek would do any better without a better environment. Examples of people who truly rise out of the situations tend to be truly exceptional individuals.

Interestingly, places where people do not collect welfare and are living on minimum wage, such as in larger chinatowns and illegal ghettoes, crime is just as high, diseases are higher, and abuse and integration into the city is far worse.

Currently the area is a nightmare of drugs and prostitution and other sundry crime that cuts off the whole eastern part of the city from the core.

It is time to admit that warehousing people in government projects just doesn’t work. Let the residents find and pay for their own housing just like everyone else. We have two million people come to this country every year with only the clothes on their backs. I think these people should be fine.

Providing this free housing hurts them, it doesn’t help them. It breaks their character and destroys their proper motivation. We’ve already learned all these lessons. I hope we don’t doom the area for another 40 years by trying to cram the same criminals back into this space.