Residents in Hyattsville, Maryland have been granted a preview of what progressives are progressing toward.

The Washington Free Beacon reports:

The sign outside the Marylander Condominiums, a 200-unit complex in Prince George’s County, Md., describes it as a “private community.”

But for members of a homeless encampment in the condo’s backyard, the complex also serves as a crackhouse, a bathroom, and the entrance to an open-air drug market, which has become a magnet for organized crime and caused millions in property damage.

Transients break into buildings and smoke crack in the stairwells. Tenants traversing the property must navigate needles, feces, and sleeping bodies as addicts nap half-naked in the hallways and sprawl themselves like welcome mats outside residents’ doors.

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.

These are small prices to pay on behalf of the politically sacred “unhoused” (please note that the euphemism “homeless” is no longer acceptable, now that everyone understands it to mean “probably psychotic and drug-addicted bum”).

Some people benefit from the situation:

Outside the freezing halls, drug dealers drive high-end vehicles through a dilapidated parking lot…

The encampment also provides a haven for prostitutes.

We pay ever more exorbitant taxes so that government can maintain order. Last month public officials held a town hall to address the situation:

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.

In other words: Get used to it, taxpayers!

The Swamp suburb Prince George’s County is 86% Democrat, the highest percentage in the country. You get what you vote for.

Instead of restoring order, the county…

…threatened to sue the condo, which was already tight on cash, for its failure to fix the nearly $5 million in property damage that has been caused by the drug den on its doorstep.

Legal action by the county is likely to result in some of the residents being rendered homeless. At least then they will qualify for the free food the county passes out to the bum encampment.

On a tip from R F.