If you want to save money but dont care about your own well being you can try to find a place by the Naylor Road metro.

Waiting lists for shelters are not.

No.

But anyway, FAR certs are easy enough to get as a civilian if you meet the requirements and your supervisor wants you to have it. It takes a year after you get your COR I to get your COR II (at least for my agency)

Letting people live in squalor in a public park isn't progressivism nor is it acceptable, what is wrong with you?

People don’t go to the shelter because they can’t do drugs and get drunk and fuck and sell drugs.

Wake up.

DC spends hundreds of millions on homeless. People with severe mental illness and drug addiction don’t want to follow rules to go to a shelter.

Fine.

But you can’t occupy downtown parks for your long term camp out panhandling K2 harassing regular citizens party.

We shouldn’t have to let them, but until there’s actual buildings for them to move into, we’re just sliding them around until they’re out of sight.

Honestly I don't know. It really depends on your supervisor. Do you mean FAR? FERS is the retirement plan.

By the time you hit GS-7 you can transfer jobs with a different ladder. Also, I would look into Schedule-A disability hiring authority. Makes it easier for the employer to hire you.

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The encampment should never have been allowed to form. A humane, ordered clearing of the encampment is needed. It appears that DC is offering help to everyone, but uptake is slow.

I've done it on $37k a year and lived in low income housing apartments. Check out Fort Chaplin apartments. Benning Road metro station is right down the street and you are on several bus routes as well.

Unless you live and work near that square shut up and sit this one out. This area is dangerous due to this encampment and it shouldn’t have been allowed to run this long. Your voice isn’t valid when you have the luxury of not having to be in this area. Crackheads and criminals is all that reside here.

>Many are closed on weekends

Can you provide a source for that statement? I don’t find that restriction on this long list of DC shelters. Admittedly I only skimmed, but other than Casa Ruby, which appears to be closed on Sundays, they look like they are open either every day or every night.

These people aren’t entitled to occupy downtown park space to for a long term camp out.

The city must enforce the laws on the books to guarantee public space to the public.

Not clearing encampments just makes the problem worse over time. LA and SF are perfect examples.

It’s like highway building: you do it to ease traffic but more people end up using the highway.

You don’t clear encampments out of “compassion” and more people think living in tents downtown is a viable alternative vs. going to homeless shelters or taking advantage of hundreds of millions of social service spending to get back on their feet long term.

Afraid I don't know the answer to that. I just know that there are DC specific rates for the GS scale: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/pay-leave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/pdf/2023/DCB.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwic6oXMzPn8AhX6OUQIHeFBAaMQFnoECCYQAQ&usg=AOvVaw1qx1ycl_i2wwzW_gIXrV59

That PDF has the 2023 rates for the DMV region.

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How about we don't do that and just move the problem somewhere where we don't see it.

Counterpoint: No, we shouldn’t just let people take over public parks for their own personal use.

Is there also a petition to get the people in these encampments to stop harassing and assaulting people? I'm sure it would have the same effect as your petition.

The city has something like 6,000 shelter beds, and surges that number in winter. That’s all the housing solution anyone is entitled to.

Assuming that housing services are slower on weekends, that's only 17 business days compared to the 60 business days originally in place.

I agree the homeless should be moved from public spaces for reasons such as public health and what not, but moving the date up was very short notice.

Is it? I drive to Franconia metro now but I still see trains to/from Huntington, just on the blue line and not the yellow line (so, impacting the other side of the yellow line) now.

If it does shut down again, yeah I think the shuttle thing would not be fun for a legally blind person to figure out the first time, but there are always a lot if employees around to ask for directions.

How competitive are group houses, and where could I find info about how to interview/bid for them? I assume Facebook or something?

Nope