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Anonymous
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I have been forced out several times. My parents rent controlled building when we my parents had a 8,12,14 and 15 year at home. Crack heads in hallway, slumlords running down block crime everywhere and landlords burning down buildings for insurance money.
We then bought a house in a nice area. Mainly Jewish we were not. Chinese investors “block busted” whole block. Mom stayed to end when she passed away and of course it was sold to Chinese investor who else would by. I then on my own had a rent stabilized unit forced out of. I was paying $800 a month, owner owned buildings for years. Paid next to nothing and he had 24 units. Sold it to an orthodox LLC who started making it hell he got some out then sold to bigger scumbag. Stuff life if 90 or if higher kill elevator. Make you walk up to six flights. Another favorite turn the heat on full blast when it is 80 degrees out. No janitor or super or even owner contact info. Rent controlled was an apt for life even in the Friends and Seinfeld era. In last 25 years has begun a place where developers force folks out. One developer in NY would blow asbestos and lead paint into units hoping you die. He at least got arrested. It is not pretty making sausage |
Anonymous
| What does someone's Judaism have ru di with being a landlord. You've got issues |
Anonymous
| To do.... |
Anonymous
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I’m a DC native who grew up in Ward 4 and currently reside in the Ward as well near my parents house; the house I grew up in. All of my friends from the neighborhood, well most of them lived with their grandparents; parents stayed their as well.
On my parents immediate block scenarios for selling are as follows: 1- Grandmother passed, multiple siblings 2- Reverse mortgage no one can pay it off 3- Kids live outside of the DMV Don’t think anyone is forcing anyone to move out. Situations and things happen. On the plus side, they aren’t being short changed. |
Anonymous
That's because we don't build enough in DC in general. Not even close. If developers were allowed to build 5x as many units by-right, you'd get a lot more 3bds. *The *Problem *With *Housing *In *DC *Is *Zoning restricting construction |
Anonymous
| White people were considered racist for moving out of their deteriorating neighborhoods 40 years ago. And now, not surprisingly, the WaPo rips on White people for moving back to these same areas. White people are THE tax base in DC. Do you think the city would improve if they moved out? |
Anonymous
That holds true about gentrification in places like Brooklyn. DC is a little different because black people lived here since its founding. U Street was historically black. Also many black moved out DC in the 70s and 80s because of the situation. I think people need to keep in mind that cities like DC took nose dives after the 68 riots. Many racist systems caused that downfall, but middle and high income people were also responding to increased safety concerns and a breakdown in government services. Whether it is woke to admit it or not, crime increased drastically in the late 60s and did not decrease til the late 90s which caused many people black and white to leave DC. |
Anonymous
| This story was such a joke. The lady had 40 YEARS paying $500 a month for a 2 bedroom apartment. She should be a millionaire by now. And we're supposed to feel sorry for her? Nope. |
Anonymous
| Why does WaPo think the blacks are being unjustly treated - that woman lived in that 2 bedroom for $575 a month. WaPo loves to paint the black as the perptual victim - it doesn’t do anyone any good to advocate that ridicolous notion, including the blacks. Its good developers are cleaning up the squalor these folks lived in. |
Anonymous
Um.. Can you repost this again in English please? |
Anonymous
Is this DC? Sounds like NYC. |
Anonymous
This |
Anonymous
I don't feel bad either. If you want to guarantee that you can stay in a house and pay x amount, THEN BUY IT, and keep paying your mortgage and your taxes. $500 won't even cover property tax for most 2 bedrooms in the city now. DC was overwhelmingly white in the 60s prior to the riots. No one on DCUM is crying about the white flight back then resulting in black residents moving in. |
Anonymous
| Grfo |
Anonymous
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The trouble is there are Different White People moving back. Not as neighbors but as a Gentrification type of Ethnic Cleansing.
The Bronx by Grand Concourse was once where Rich Jewish Doctors and Lawyers lived in Grand Apartments on the wide street. This was the 1940s to early 1960s. Slowly nighborhood was taken over by working class Irish, Italian, German up to early 1970s. No one pushed the wealthy Jewish families out. They had rent controled apartments for life. They moved on their own. The working class Irish, Italian and Germans were forced out in crack epidemic and super high crime in late 70s and 80s. Landlords burned buildings down for insurance and stop maintaining them. The 90s things started to turn around, Buy 2012 Bronx was back. But landlords while Bronx was a shithole from 1972 to 1999 signed tons of leases at low low rent guaranteed for life. So the landlords once again started forcing folks out, stop maintaining building, abusing tenants, turning off heat, offering buy outs which is like an offer you cant refuse. The Bronx in 2019 has condos and new buildings going up. Where are the working class going, who cares. One day they will start attacking landlords, but they are all nameless LLCs The whites moving back which is funny they say white. As they are just the young kids who rent. It is the Asian investors who actually do the dirty work in many cases to force folks out |