{"id":671,"date":"2021-05-21T11:05:48","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T11:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/?p=671"},"modified":"2021-06-01T22:05:07","modified_gmt":"2021-06-01T22:05:07","slug":"still-homeless-decaa-testifies-on-end-of-covid-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/dc\/671","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Still Homeless\u2019 \u2013 DECAA testifies on end of COVID Services"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Media Alert<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

May 21, 2021<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Contact Nick DelleDonne<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

703-929-6656<\/span><\/b> <\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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\u2018Still Homeless\u2019 \u2013 DECAA testifies on end of COVID Services<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n


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\u201cHomeless people housed in hotels are still homeless,\u201d says Dan Casey, until recently homeless and a member of Dupont East Civic Action Association (DECAA). He will testify Friday, May 21, at the DC Council hearing aimed at ending COVID services. Living on the streets of DC until two weeks ago, Casey calls attention to the disorganized and inefficient services DC provides for growing numbers of homeless in the COVID-19 global pandemic.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Casey is one of the DECAA members testifying about the urgent need for additional resources to house the homeless and bring order and efficiency to a system that \u201cappears to spend a lot with meager results,\u201d said DECAA President Nick DelleDonne. \u201cWe organized a DECAA House the Homeless Committee as\u00a0\u00a0homeless\u00a0encampments proliferated in Dupont Circle,\u201d he added.\u00a0 The DC homeless\/housing crisis has racial overtones, especially for the city's extremely low-income residents.\u00a0 In fact, the crisis is contributing to the exodus of Black and low-income residents from the city, as evidenced by the 40,000 Black residents displaced in the last decade.<\/span> DC needs to find alternatives to the reliance on developer-driven housing development which is bound to fail. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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DECAA has lined up witnesses to urge improvements in a city-wide problem in a health emergency. A link to the hearing is here. DC Encoder 1 Room 500 (granicus.com)<\/a> One of our proposals recently added as an option in the DC Comprehensive Plan is for social housing. Simply expressed, social housing is on public land, with housing built by the city and managed by the tenants. Social housing has proved itself a grat solution and the federal government is proposing a Social Housing Authority to promote it.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


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Join the neighborhood discussion and action forum, HearUsNow! <\/span><\/b>https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!forum\/hearusnow<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Visit DECAA\u2019s website and sign our petition.\u00a0https:\/\/<\/span><\/i>www.KeepDupontGreen.org<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Media Alert May 21, 2021 Contact Nick DelleDonne 703-929-6656 \u00a0 \u2018Still Homeless\u2019 \u2013 DECAA testifies on end of COVID Services \u201cHomeless people housed in hotels are still homeless,\u201d says Dan Casey, until recently homeless and a member of Dupont East Civic Action Association (DECAA). He will testify Friday, May 21, at the DC Council hearing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,1,36,67,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-housing","category-citywide","category-dc","category-homelessness","category-planning","category-w2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":686,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/671\/revisions\/686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dcfeedback.com\/fit2print\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}