When the rent on an apartment in DC is double the income of a 40 hour a week minimum wage worker, when over half of all homeless people in the city work full time, we have one huge problem.

Squatting abandoned buildings is a "sweat equity" solution that does not require a massive infusion of cash to the DC governemt for construction.

If you don't like squatters, pay for enough public housing to eliminate the need for it! Otherwise the people who are being made homeless (like Renny) by the rich whites who are occupying Washington (just as they are occupying Iraq) have no choice but to do whatever is necessary to survive.

NOBODY has an obligation to lay down and die to "get out of the way" of "redevelopment"-not now, and not EVER!