The cut off text is one word: complex. As in ' residents of the complex.'
If you don’t want to click on the links, allow us to summarize. There
is a condominium complex called Marylander Condominiums, in Prince
George’s County, Maryland, east of Washington, D.C. It has 200 units.
And
on the same grounds is an area nicknamed ‘the Mountains’ which is a
homeless encampment, and open-air drug market. And the residents of the
Mountains have been destroying the Marylander condos since 2023. It is
hard to summarize all the myriad ways that these criminals have made
life hell for these residents, but quoting one paragraph from the story
gives you some sense of how bad it is:
Half of the
complex has gone without heat since Thanksgiving after vagrants
allegedly vandalized the boiler room, causing pipes to burst in several
buildings. Some units have lost electricity, too, due to the overuse of
space heaters. Though the county instructed those without heat to
‘vacate immediately’ in December, most have defied the order and tried
to weather the cold. They say they have nowhere else to go.
This would be while the D.C. area is experiencing unusually cold weather.
And really, calling it a homeless encampment is underselling it:
Patrolled
by masked men who appear to be part of a local gang, the encampment has
become a haven for prostitutes—one of whom solicited this reporter just
outside the camp—and for the AK-47s police say have been found in
wooded areas. While it is not clear who stashed those guns, graffiti on
nearby structures includes signs for MS-13. County police declined to
comment on gang activity in the area.
This and other problems created by the Mountains that we are not
listing has basically made the place unlivable. And what are the police
doing? Well…
The squalor has sparked a smattering of
local headlines and belated, but minimal, political action. At a town
hall on Jan. 22, officials said they had taken several measures over the
past two weeks to address an encampment that had festered for more than
two years, evolving from a collection of tents into something that more
closely resembles a shantytown, as the camp’s residents have built
increasingly elaborate structures with materials that appear to have
been stolen from nearby stores. One recently demolished shack included a
generator and a makeshift smokestack.
Billed as a ‘listening
session’ for condo-owners to air their grievances, the town hall
featured a lengthy presentation on how the county was handling its
‘unhoused’ residents.
‘We have to be compassionate,’ the county’s
deputy chief administrative officer for public safety and homeland
security, Melvin Powell, said of the encampment, addressing the hundreds
of residents who could soon be displaced because of it.
‘We’re not criminalizing the unhoused,’ police major Thomas Boone added.
The
situation shocked officials at Quasar Real Estate, a local investment
firm, when it began managing the Marylander in April 2025. For months,
they pleaded with police and county officials to address the open-air
drug market that had effectively colonized the condo, which suffered so
many break-ins that the company stopped repairing the locks.
All of this is in the name of being compassionate to the people living in the Mountains:
The
costs of that compassion fell predominantly on poor, non-white
condo-owners who saw the value of their homes evaporate as vandalism
from the encampment pushed the complex into disrepair. That in turn made
banks unwilling to finance security upgrades—without which the condo
was more susceptible to crime—and caused inspectors to deem many units
‘unfit for human habitation’ after the heating system was vandalized.
The
county is now taking the condo to court to enforce an evacuation order
against those units. If a judge rules in the county’s favor on Thursday,
the residents who for years were terrorized by a homeless encampment
will become homeless themselves.
You got that? They
wouldn’t clear out the homeless camps… instead they are trying to clear
out the homeowners. They destroyed the value of their property with
neglect and now they are going to throw them out on the street.
But
if a huge part of the problem is MS-13, a gang well known with being
filled with illegal immigrants, then we recommend that the Trump
administration stage a raid.
It would have been seen as too unrealistic. If Franz Kafka had an editor, he would have told him to tone it down.
This
is how dem corruption works. Someone in that local govt will buy the
complex for pennies when it goes bankrupt. Then they will quickly evict
all the homeless.
but when that camp of vagrants
destroys the boiler room of a nearby apartment complex, they immediately
evict the residents bc it is very illegal to live in a building without
heat. that would be unsafe. has to be dealt with, we live in a society
of laws, you understand.
For my friends (vagrant drug addicts), everything. For my enemies (homeowners), the law. https://t.co/hb7PgFgm0z
A
whole building full of people getting terrorized and not one of them
will mask up and throw some molotov cocktails into the camp at 4:00am https://t.co/xqVMmlPOCV
Not
yet, as far as we know. But if this keeps going long enough, we suspect
that they will take the law into their hands. We’re not endorsing it,
but we are predicting it will happen.
My
most right wing opinion is that Trump should order a drone strike on
this encampment and depose all the elected officials who let it operate
with impunity. https://t.co/Lm6LsbGj7I
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