Transgender prostitutes, homeless wanted out of newly-gentrified Mount Vernon Square
”People aren’t going to pay the prices for these places and then put up with that.”
Scott Lutz a construction worker helping to develop the Mount Vernon Square neighborhood which until very recently was populated mostly by transgender sex workers, homeless, older buildings and empty lots. (WJLA)
”Safeway is opening on September 12th I’m sure customers coming to Safeway aren’t going to want to walk over homeless transgendered people living on the streets.”
Bill McLeod, speaking for the Community Improvement District of the now highly-developed Mount Vernon Square neighborhood, regarding his new neighborhood residents’ desire to remove the decades-long population of transgender prostitutes and homeless. It’s reported that a number of agencies are looking to assist the needy instead of driving them to a new neighborhood. (WJLA)
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