November 25, 2011 | 10:40 AM | By

Homeless Shelter Leaving Logan Circle

Central Union Mission has been a Logan Circle institution for 28 years, but the homeless shelter is preparing to relocate to downtown. Borderstan interviewed the organization’s executive director David O. Treadwell about how the neighborhood has changed and what the area’s homeless will do after the organization moves.


“Back in 2000 we observed the gentrification. It began earlier than that but by 2000 it was becoming intense. We could see the writing on the wall, and we felt like eventually this would no longer be a poor neighborhood. We weren’t priced out since we own our building, but we wanted to be where the people who need our services were.”

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  • Blackmenshealth

    I see this sadly happening all over the USA. Homeless were first targeted years ago under Reagan when he basically cut off funding for state mental health facilities, increasing the volume of mentally ill homeless in America and recently shelters have to contend with greedy developers and corrupt political leaders putting $$ ahead of human decency. I think if we cannot permanently address homelessness in America then having these shelters protected makes sense. Our collective decency is in question.

  • Blackmenshealth

    I see this sadly happening all over the USA. Homeless were first targeted years ago under Reagan when he basically cut off funding for state mental health facilities, increasing the volume of mentally ill homeless in America and recently shelters have to contend with greedy developers and corrupt political leaders putting $$ ahead of human decency. I think if we cannot permanently address homelessness in America then having these shelters protected makes sense. Our collective decency is in question.