Bowser proposes to add over 1,500 new affordable housing units to "Rock Creek West"

[Anonymous]

Figure 1: where DC'S existing dedicated affordable housing is located by planning area
Figure 2: areas with the biggest shortages of affordable housing targeted for the biggest increases by 2025

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So she will propose that the first development dedicated to affordable housing be in her neighborhood, correct?

Ummm her part of the city in fact has a lot more affordable units than Ward 3 does already, by a long shot. And you probably don't know this but there in fact are some pretty affluent neighborhoods east of 16th Street as well as several stable middle class neighborhoods.

Actually, there are ZERO affordable units for rent in Colonial Village, District of Columbia. None, zip, nada.

Are there any in the general 20012 zip code? Possibly. But I just spent a few minutes I'll never get back confirming that Bowser's 100% single family neighborhood has no low-income apartments — including along 16th St NW.

You first, Muriel

[Anonymous]

She should focus on fixing the places where the indigent live, rather than devaluing the places where they don't by introducing them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What I find surprising is that Bowser says NOTHING about the schools in these areas. They are already overcrowded. We need more schools WOTP - elementary, middle, and HS.

Sign not this again.

We don't need more schools WOTP.

We need the DC Council to take up re-drawing the boundaries and to move people en masse to the grossly under enrolled schools EOTP.

It is nuts that upper middle class families in Crestwood and Mt Pleasant are sending their kids to Deal and Wilson. It is nuts that gentrifiers in Columbia and 16th Street Heights and Shaw are doing the same or are going to charters.

Force all those families into their neighborhood schools and you solve the school capacity problems WOTP and the under enrollment problems EOTP and for no cost since most of the schools EOTP have already been renovated at great cost. And you probably reduce congestion and air pollution in the process.

And all those woke folks forcing out long term residents would have to put their kids where their proclaimed values are by actually sending their kids to their neighborhood schools rather than picking and choosing how invested they actually are in where they live.

I strongly disagree. The demographic predictions for WOTP DC is organic growth through the roof. Add 1500 units aimed at low income families and you have a school meltdown. WOTP needs more schools - period. The existing schools won't have enough seats for the predicted demographic boom over the next 10 years. Redistricting Barnaby Woods and CCDC to EoTP won't solve the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser wants more low-cost housing in affluent city neighborhoods. The goal, officials say, is to correct a history of “racially discriminatory” housing policy.

How is this policy going to end up any different than when Bowser put formerly homeless people alongside long-term residents in apt buildings up and down Connecticut Ave? They think they are helping when in reality they are conducting social experiments without adequate support for the people affected. How is Lafayette or Murch going to accept hundreds of new students?? What about Deal and Wilson?

How can residents in "Rock Creek West" express their concern with this new policy? Is Cheh going to listen? What about those of us that are stuck with Bowser's lackey Brandon Todd in Ward 4??

I honestly don't understand the process in which someone's brain transforms a proposal for affordable housing into a proposal for housing the homeless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She should focus on fixing the places where the indigent live, rather than devaluing the places where they don't by introducing them.

You should run for mayor if you've got such bright ideas. Or at the very least you should run for D.C. Council since they unanimously signed off on amendments to the Comprehensive Plan, the city’s guiding document for development and growth. Among the changes made by the Council are a stronger focus on affordable housing and racial equity as priorities for the District. The Council’s revisions to the Comprehensive Plan also discuss the importance of “planned unit developments,” or PUDs—zoning vehicles that permit greater density in exchange for certain community benefits—in raising the amount of housing, retail, and other amenities in the city.

So #1...you need to widen the scope of who you direct your ire at because it's not solely Mayor Bowser.
And #2...you need to get up off your lazy behind and run for office since you think you can do a better job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So she will propose that the first development dedicated to affordable housing be in her neighborhood, correct?

Ummm her part of the city in fact has a lot more affordable units than Ward 3 does already, by a long shot. And you probably don't know this but there in fact are some pretty affluent neighborhoods east of 16th Street as well as several stable middle class neighborhoods.

Actually, there are ZERO affordable units for rent in Colonial Village, District of Columbia. None, zip, nada.

Are there any in the general 20012 zip code? Possibly. But I just spent a few minutes I'll never get back confirming that Bowser's 100% single family neighborhood has no low-income apartments — including along 16th St NW.

You first, Muriel

100% this
The map shows her little swath at the top of the drawing will not be affected by her plan. Someone please call her out on this

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What I find surprising is that Bowser says NOTHING about the schools in these areas. They are already overcrowded. We need more schools WOTP - elementary, middle, and HS.

Sign not this again.

We don't need more schools WOTP.

We need the DC Council to take up re-drawing the boundaries and to move people en masse to the grossly under enrolled schools EOTP.

It is nuts that upper middle class families in Crestwood and Mt Pleasant are sending their kids to Deal and Wilson. It is nuts that gentrifiers in Columbia and 16th Street Heights and Shaw are doing the same or are going to charters.

Force all those families into their neighborhood schools and you solve the school capacity problems WOTP and the under enrollment problems EOTP and for no cost since most of the schools EOTP have already been renovated at great cost. And you probably reduce congestion and air pollution in the process.

And all those woke folks forcing out long term residents would have to put their kids where their proclaimed values are by actually sending their kids to their neighborhood schools rather than picking and choosing how invested they actually are in where they live.

You obviously don't have kids. I guess it's easy to lecture other people about what they should be doing when you yourself do not have any skin in the game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So she will propose that the first development dedicated to affordable housing be in her neighborhood, correct?

Ummm her part of the city in fact has a lot more affordable units than Ward 3 does already, by a long shot. And you probably don't know this but there in fact are some pretty affluent neighborhoods east of 16th Street as well as several stable middle class neighborhoods.

Actually, there are ZERO affordable units for rent in Colonial Village, District of Columbia. None, zip, nada.

Are there any in the general 20012 zip code? Possibly. But I just spent a few minutes I'll never get back confirming that Bowser's 100% single family neighborhood has no low-income apartments — including along 16th St NW.

You first, Muriel

100% this
The map shows her little swath at the top of the drawing will not be affected by her plan. Someone please call her out on this

Why don't you want to call out the rest of the DC Council? They're the one who unanimously signed off on amendments to the Comprehensive Plan, the city’s guiding document for development and growth.
Your preoccupation with whether Bowser's neighborhood will be affected is typical of the type of lackluster bellyaching from birdbrained haters that only adds to the noise pollution in this city.
Find a valid point of contention or shut the hell up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So she will propose that the first development dedicated to affordable housing be in her neighborhood, correct?

Ummm her part of the city in fact has a lot more affordable units than Ward 3 does already, by a long shot. And you probably don't know this but there in fact are some pretty affluent neighborhoods east of 16th Street as well as several stable middle class neighborhoods.

Actually, there are ZERO affordable units for rent in Colonial Village, District of Columbia. None, zip, nada.

Are there any in the general 20012 zip code? Possibly. But I just spent a few minutes I'll never get back confirming that Bowser's 100% single family neighborhood has no low-income apartments — including along 16th St NW.

You first, Muriel

100% this
The map shows her little swath at the top of the drawing will not be affected by her plan. Someone please call her out on this

Actually, it could be in the future. I live in the neighborhood. Colonial Village/North Portal Estates/Shepherd Park are all zoned for the same schools (Shepherd/Deal/Wilson), have the same neighborhood associations, etc., and are really all considered part of "greater" Shepherd Park. The border is Georgia Ave. to the east, which already has zoning laws which permit multi-unit housing. Currently, it's lined with a bunch of (mostly shabby) apt. buildings. I would absolutely support development along this strip, and there already has been a little. There will also be affordable housing in the Walter Reed development, just to the south of the neighborhood, once it gets underway.

There were plans for a mixed use building on the corner of Georgia/Alaska/Kalmia which was to be a midrise apt. building with a Harris Teeter--Brandon Todd supported this development. However, it eventually was killed due to neighborhood opposition (mostly a few loud voices that had retained legal, put up yard signs, etc.).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

What I find surprising is that Bowser says NOTHING about the schools in these areas. They are already overcrowded. We need more schools WOTP - elementary, middle, and HS.

Sign not this again.

We don't need more schools WOTP.

We need the DC Council to take up re-drawing the boundaries and to move people en masse to the grossly under enrolled schools EOTP.

It is nuts that upper middle class families in Crestwood and Mt Pleasant are sending their kids to Deal and Wilson. It is nuts that gentrifiers in Columbia and 16th Street Heights and Shaw are doing the same or are going to charters.

Force all those families into their neighborhood schools and you solve the school capacity problems WOTP and the under enrollment problems EOTP and for no cost since most of the schools EOTP have already been renovated at great cost. And you probably reduce congestion and air pollution in the process.

And all those woke folks forcing out long term residents would have to put their kids where their proclaimed values are by actually sending their kids to their neighborhood schools rather than picking and choosing how invested they actually are in where they live.

The reason some of these schools are under-enrolled is because they are garbage schools and everyone knows it. Some of these schools are so terrible they should be shut down. If you tried to force people to send their children there, they would just move.

[Anonymous]

There's tons of affordable housing in PG country, but I guess we're supposed to pretend that doesn't exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's tons of affordable housing in PG country, but I guess we're supposed to pretend that doesn't exist.

Is PG County a part of the District of Columbia?
Exactly.
Shut the hell up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's tons of affordable housing in PG country, but I guess we're supposed to pretend that doesn't exist.

Is PG County a part of the District of Columbia?
Exactly.
Shut the hell up.

And that matters because.....

[Anonymous]

Other cities have tried putting housing for low-income people in rich neighborhoods and have ended up with issues like those poor people can't afford to shop anywhere in their neighborhood. All the stores in their area cater to high-income people.