$2100 for a one bedroom is pretty high … lots of “one month” free still going around for 12 months terms … 7 months is likely too long for a summer sublet fee

In case you haven’t been paying attention, which clearly you haven’t, the mayor has been lobbying the president to force suburban commuters to return to the office. And I live in northwest and your muthas house.

“Being a person who residents blame when they have to start commuting again — let alone being a blue-city Democrat who makes strange bedfellows with GOP ultras — is the sort of thing usually avoided by a pol skilled enough to win a landslide third term as mayor, as Bowser just did.

But the way the local government sees it, something has to give or else the city is in deep trouble.

There are days when downtowns in other American towns can almost look like they did before 2020. In the 9-to-5 core of Washington, though, there’s no mistaking the 2023 reality with the pre-Covid world. Streets are noticeably emptier and businesses scarcer. Crime has ticked up. The city’s remarkable quarter-century run of population growth and economic dynamism and robust tax revenues seems in danger.

Officials now privately worry about a return to the bad old days when the District, unable to pay its bills, was forced to throw itself on the mercy of Newt Gingrich’s Congress. And while some of the broad factors that caused the whipsaw change from municipal optimism to civic anxiety are beyond any local pol’s control, bringing Uncle Sam’s workers back is something denizens of D.C.’s government think mayoral cajoling might affect.

According to census data, Washington has the highest work-from-home rate in the country. Week-to-week numbers from the security firm Kastle Systems back this up: The company, whose key fobs are used in office buildings around the country (including the one that houses POLITICO), compiles real-time occupancy data based on card swipes in its 10 largest markets. D.C. is perennially dead last.

“It is a challenge to have a quarter of the economy sitting on the sidelines,” Falcicchio says. The total number of jobs has dropped significantly, notably in hospitality. “We think that’s because those jobs are really kind of indirect jobs that are somewhat dependent on the vibrancy that the federal government being in the office offers.”

“Or another way to look at it is Metro,” the regional transit system, he says. “It’s about a third of what it used to be.” When rider revenue plunges, the local jurisdictions have to make up for it out of their general funds — money that could otherwise go to schools or public safety. It’s a dangerous cycle for any municipality.

In the local nightmare scenario, a downtown that’s perpetually short of workers has disastrous knock-on effects: Taxes on retail sales and commercial real estate don’t come in, public services get cut back, transit gets slower, empty streets feel increasingly scary, and the capital regains its 1980s-era image as a place people flee.”

It’s always edgy white college kids from suburban Maryland that make these profound announcements 😂

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.

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.

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.

Leave that shit to the west coast

If you like N Arlington and you visit fam in NoVa there’s not too much to be gained moving into northwest dc unless money is no object or you really want to be in dc

You haven’t really provided enough info about your interests or lifestyle preferences to receive useful recommendations.

Such a weird take. Lots of people travel for work or have to be gone for awhile. And people make do. There’s also something called single parents. If OP is making a large chunk more money it could be super helpful for the family financially. Daddy being gone 3 - 4 nights a month is very doable if the financial reward is worth it.

Thirded.

Lots of people travel for work. Not that new. And would be more efficient and sustainable in the long run to have dad not running himself ragged doing 15 hours of travel a week.

Have you thought about negotiating, instead, one week in person and three remote, as opposed to one day a week in person and three days remote. Why do they want you in person one day a week? Seems likely for some nebulous relationship building as opposed to legitimate work reasons, right?

Mixed race erasure

You have a source for this?

That’s one way to get the city safe - just keep the stats low

I think it’s only for ongoing violent crimes - a call about a carjacked vehicle I dint think so

That’s bad ass

They can’t chase

The research says doing aggressive, targeted policing towards the small subset of repeat offenders is the way. MPD is largely unable to do targeted policing anymore though.

That’s fair. I guess I don’t really want fancy. DC is a bunch of “fancy” where the food isn’t that good anyway and you pay double (read: triple) for a cute ambiance.

If I want that, somewhat rarely, I’ll hit up 14th street, DuPont, or Capitol Hill.

Imma give you a life pro tip. The best restaurants are hole in the wall. Not flashy spots where you pay for the ambiance.

You’ve got some good options over that way off Langston Blvd. arguably some of the best diversity of cuisines in the dmv

Bostan Uyghur (best Uyghur in the dmv)

Cafe Colline (just on Washingtonian best 100)

Philippine market (solid Filipino food at a good price)

Charga grill (just featured in WashPo - Pakistani and Peruvian combo)

Minerva express - cheap and tasty Indian food

Peter Chang - some of the best Chinese lunch special around

Lebanese Taverna - duh

Italian Store - also duh

This is really on scratching the surface (my gf just moved to the area.) but you actually have better bang for your buck here than in dc or in the ballston / Clarendon area.

I thought there were exceptions but I misunderstood

Is manslaughter in DC automatically federal?

13 years. How many will he actually serve?