Oh, Chevy Chase (DC affordable housing)!
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Anonymous
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What did people think of the Post's article on the CC neighborhood in DC resisting affordable housing?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/07/09/chevy-chase-dc-affordable-housing-community-center/ “We’re not against affordable housing,” Chevy Chase Voice co-founder Sheryl Barnes said in an interview. “We just want some proof that we need more of it in Ward 3 and this isn’t a fig leaf for a developer giveaway.” I didn't know the CC demos or history either: "Chevy Chase has less than 1 percent of the city’s dedicated affordable housing units, according to D.C.’s Office of Planning. Its residents are also overwhelmingly White in a city that is 45 percent Black — and that’s by historical design. Founded by Francis G. Newlands, a former U.S. senator and avowed white supremacist, the neighborhood kept Black people out for decades through racial covenants that barred their homeownership." |
Anonymous
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Racist as usual.
The entire town of CC is built on racism. |
Anonymous
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Yeah, the history of Chevy Chase is pretty toxic (on both sides of the border). They removed whole neighborhoods of Black families. They built housing specifically to create homogeneity. And people continue to see that as highly desirable. They don’t move there in spite of the history, they really move there BECAUSE of it, because of the legacy it created and the perceived and real advantages to their family.
It’s my home town, and it’s quite a place. The older I get the more uncomfortable I feel about it. I don’t have a solution and I’m not immune to the forces at work, but they are definitely toxic. |
Anonymous
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I'm sure all the CC residents consider themselves to be progressive, have rainbow flags, and black lives matter signs in their yard. But when it comes time to walk the walk, look at them squirming now. They're the same dbags who block the purple line for the entire region and now want to block affordable housing because some brown people might move in. Just the same kinds of reasoning they used to block the purple line.
Why is it that areas like Silver Spring etc. are the ones that have to deal with all of the affordable housing issues? It's time for other areas of the county and city to put up or shut up. Time to build affordable housing in areas of Potomac, Bethesda, and CC. |
Anonymous
| One other thing I’m baffled by is why smart rich people could be so stupid and self-sabotaging as to be quoted in the Washington Post about how you think affordable housing will ruin your neighborhood. All “Connor McCarthy” has to say is “no comment,” or even “can I give you a comment without attribution?” What kind of person can be that rich and successful but also that stupid? |
Anonymous
Could be retired and give zero Fs |
Anonymous
It says he’s 39! And has kids! That quote will live forever. I just don’t get it. |
Anonymous
Maybe it’s a fake name or maybe he is rich enough to not care |
Anonymous
Gave them the name of his hated neighbor?! |
Anonymous
| I mean nobody likes affordable housing. If you don’t oppose it you are idealistic or it doesn’t affect you or both |
Anonymous
Lol that’s the only plausible explanation. |
Anonymous
To add, I live in a subsidized apt building. Was lucky to get into a relatively decent one but many neighbors are quite the characters. Higher level of littering for sure compared to my old complex. Pot smell is on par. Noise level on par or higher |
Anonymous
I actually think he just kind of lost it, happens to the smartest of us |
Anonymous
Imo if you’re going to put affordable housing anywhere, CCDC makes the most sense. It would probably fill up with lower income workers and old people. The people who cause nuisances wouldn’t want to live up there anyway, it’s not near anything. |
Anonymous
| Bowser....gonna bring driveby gang shootings and MS13 to CC 😀 |