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Leave It To The Locals, Please

From the New York Times today:

    The house, in an area of Southeast Washington marked by poverty and high crime rates, seeks to provide homeless teens with a sense of comfort and community; residents stay in furnished apartments, and the center trains them in cooking, cleaning and computer use, and counsels them in finding work and medical help, with an emphasis on cultivating self-reliance.

He was at Maryland and 11th Northeast, not Southeast, and the neighborhood is hardly high-poverty/crime — that area is pretty well gentrified.

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