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I recently went to Northern Virginia Surgical Arts (the Carlin springs location), and I would highly recommend them!

They are allowed to use drugs in their tents but not in shelters. This isn’t a judgement, I love drugs, but the fact is an overwhelming majority of unhoused people have substance abuse issues and shelters do not allow it. I agree the shelters need to do something to accommodate people and meet them where they are. People also need to be willing to get treatment if substance abuse is a problem that interferes with their ability to participate in society.

Why don’t you let them live with you?

Hard agree. This is just wild. People defending the right to live in parks are only virtue signaling, pretending to be helping. Living in a tent in the middle of a city is a problem, letting it continue is complaisance and tacitly giving up on addressing it.

We need to fix the root cause but in the meantime you can’t live in public spaces.

Highly recommend Washington Oral & Facial Surgery & Dental Implant Center (DC location on 19th St NW). Staff was friendly and very thorough when I recently got all four removed.

>Many are closed on weekends

Citation requested.

“Unfairly given”? As of now the homeless are being “unfairly given” complete use of public parks, with the privilege to harrass and assault passersby as much as they like. I think most people would be thrilled to have their community park back in exchange, and it’s honestly not a bad solution seeing as it could keep the people together and provide a distribution point for food/supplies. Maybe somewhere further out where there is more space for them and isn’t so cramped. Obviously providing them with housing is the better option but if some people refuse it then it’s better than the exisiting approach.

If you're legally blind you might also qualify for Metro Access which can pick you up door to door as long as you live close to some sort of wmata bus or metro stop.

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https://www.wmata.com/service/accessibility/metro-access/

“The government continues to treat these people as if they aren’t human beings”, indeed.

(I’m saying that allowing people to live like this is treating them in a way that humans shouldn’t be treated. I’m agreeing with the person I replied to)

> I didn’t realize that MD has an ANC system like DC

Maryland doesn't have ANCs. Suitland is an unincorporated census-designated place in Prince George's County, so I'd guess the closest would be the county council.

Nope.

Absolutely not

Can you expand on how they’re treating them as if they aren’t human beings? I’m not doubting you but want to know more about their treatment.

No. Is there a counter petition? Because I’d be happy to sign that.

This. I work by McPherson Square and even getting in/out of the metro station is scary, let alone the park itself.

Yep yep. At this point I only go about once every 2 months, hopefully this changes over time. My doc has said at some point the less we need to see each other, the better/more stable my condition is.

I ought to save up for the months in between now and the FO, put in a few months on the job and maybe I'll get to contracting at some point in the near future. The thing is at my current job it doesn't feel like I'm doing anything? Public procurement though feels like the work is a lot more meaningful and impactful.

They set up shop somewhere else. Then you clear that park.

You do not let the city to accept long term tent encampments. You just enforce the laws to ensure a safe and clean city for everyone (including those living in unsafe conditions in tents in downtown.)

The city must be strategic with a looming fiscal crisis due to little downtown commuter real estate and restaurant and tax revenue.

If the city continues to scare away sources of income but encouraging a lawless downtown (now that they don’t have a captive suburban commuter class) then there will not be the generous surplus to spend hundreds of millions a year on social services, to help people that want to be helped.

The city should make setting up downtown tent cities impossible or very difficult, so that people are incentivized to seek help through the existing abundant channels of social services, move to a place where they will not be monopolizing public space (in the woods somewhere, where homeless used to stay before tent cities were allowed by municipal agencies) or move to a city that allows long-term homeless encampments to thrive unchecked. I believe there is a lot of current space for tents to be pitched in Seattle and Los Angeles, with a municipal government that sanctions that behavior.

Seems to me like you should make the leap.

And like the other reply here, I’ve taken Amtrak from DC to Durham and it’s not bad. You’d be able to navigate it all on your own—metro to Union Station; Amtrak to Durham; Uber to Duke and then the campus is pretty walkable. The busses would probably be even cheaper.

FARS, yeah.. recognized that slip-up after posting.

Just so I sort of have this correct.. even if I'm in a 0300 role, when I hit GS7 I could potentially transfer over to a 7/9/11 1102 ladder on an internal announcement, simply because I'm already at that grade in any series (+3 yrs private sector work experience)?

I already do have a Schedule A letter.. seems like I'm either not using itt correctly, or it isn't pushing me in the direction I need to go.

> How difficult would it be to get to a GS12, if I'm not on a ladder position?

If you've got a college degree and your 5-7 ladder is in the same field, you'd be on a great track.

I doubt you'd be able to jump straight from 7-12 since 12 requires a year of experience at the 11 level and it would be very hard to argue that your GS-7 job provided you with GS-11 equivalent experience, but I imagine you could probably get in on a 9-11 ladder pretty easily especially if your 5-7 job is competitive service.

From there you're just a good connection or desk audit away from 12.

Also, don't listen to the people saying you can't make it here on that salary, you absolutely can. As others have said you'll definitely need roommates, but thousands of people come here every year and find rooms in group houses. I know NPS Park Rangers start at GS-5 and there are a lot of them who work here and live together. I'm not sure how you'd connect with them (maybe there's a subreddit or message board somewhere?) but it might be a good place to look.

How about we fix the shelters and stop allowing politicians to ignore their conditions. A report just came out about a city surplus that we're just gonna sit on for a rainy day.

Fellas, it's been raining for a while now and these people need real solutions not these nonsense petitions that get picked apart by a comments section, forget about showing it to someone in policy.

Bus them down to Florida. Weather’s better.

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