What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

Why? Do they have fewer homes standing as a result? Do they disappear?

You can’t be serious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can play a role today. Did you protest today? Did you donate to a mutual aid organization?

Troll rating: 6.5/10

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m continuing to live in my home in Columbia Heights and not sell it to a developer who would chop it up into overpriced units. I also continue to send my children to public school.

What did YOU do today to prevent gentrification, OP?

OP here. Exclusively patronizing very local businesses, sending my children to public school, not calling the cops over a party.

Do you send your kid to your neighborhood DCPS school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m continuing to live in my home in Columbia Heights and not sell it to a developer who would chop it up into overpriced units. I also continue to send my children to public school.

What did YOU do today to prevent gentrification, OP?

OP here. Exclusively patronizing very local businesses, sending my children to public school, not calling the cops over a party.

Do you send your kid to your neighborhood DCPS school?

Yes

[Anonymous]

Holding on to my property, despite all those letters and calls from interested “neighbors “. You?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can play a role today. Did you protest today? Did you donate to a mutual aid organization?

Troll rating: 6.5/10

I’d give it a 5, but there has been some biters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

boo hoo

Wow. What a shocking level of callousness toward unhoused people. Those same people who you call the cops on simply for existing!

Troll

[Anonymous]

OP, this is the wrong forum and wrong crowd to condemn gentrification.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can play a role today. Did you protest today? Did you donate to a mutual aid organization?

Gentrification is inevitable in capitalist economy. Gentrification isn't all bad. It helps people get rid of properties at a decent price and move near their jobs, without gentrification they won't be able to sell at a price which gets them a shelter near job. People who inherit their parent's old place, can sell and get some money, instead of not being able to sell and not being able to afford to fix it.

[Anonymous]

I went to encourage criminals to commit more violent and property crimes in the neibghborhood. That will keep the gentrifiers out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can play a role today. Did you protest today? Did you donate to a mutual aid organization?

First, most middle class people need to pay their own mortgage to avoid foreclosures. Second, pay property taxes, insurance, utilities and maintenance. Third, you get my drift. Most of us don't have that kind of luxury.

[Anonymous]

Littering.
You’re welcome.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m continuing to live in my home in Columbia Heights and not sell it to a developer who would chop it up into overpriced units. I also continue to send my children to public school.

What did YOU do today to prevent gentrification, OP?

OP here. Exclusively patronizing very local businesses, sending my children to public school, not calling the cops over a party.

None of which have anything to do with “gentrification.” Resisting gentrification would be you giving your house to a homeless person and moving to Loudon. Or maybe selling your house to a developer to build as many units of low income housing as possible.

[Anonymous]

I think property there shouldn't be any property taxes after owner retires, if they lived in their home for 10+ years. Just give city a portion of capital gains when they sell the house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We all want the good sides of gentrification (jobs, safety, education, etc) but feel for the displaced in the process.

I didn't do anything today. But I am prepared to sell at a lower price to a family rather to a developer. I am (secretly) prepared to sell to a family that will increase the ethnic diversity of my neighborhood. I am prepared to vote for people who pay attention to that sort of thing - but I can't any, honestly. All local officials seem to focus on either woke or anti-woke values, and when in office, they're just keeping the status quo to go on to higher things.

It’s truly bizarre that you think restricting housing development decreases gentrification.