We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
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Anonymous
There was a *massive* number of foreclosures nationwide during the 2008 financial crisis -- that's, uh, what made it a crisis. It was hardly limited to PG county. |
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Why does it have to be “white entitlement?” We are pretty multicultural when it comes
To entitlement in the DMV. |
Anonymous
Because middle class Black people, like me, have spent our entire lives doing what we can to be successful because that is what has been demanded of us. Michelle Obama once called Barak a "hustler" and all Black people need to hustle somewhat to get ahead because, and the data is clear, Black people born into wealthy families are less likely to maintain their economic status into adulthood than equivalent whites. Black people in this city have spent decades begging this city to help them more, only to be told that nothing can be done. In the meantime, a whole generation of entitled white brats comes along and decides that they don't need to work for anything. They can just have whatever they want and it is disturbing to me that in some ways they are getting it. Who do you think is benefitting from these "inclusive" development units? Meanwhile Black people keep getting left behind but these entitled white people sure love to us as props for their games. "Upzoning" Cleveland Park is not going to do anything for any person of color in this city. In fact, it probably hurts Black people on net because it promotes private development and investment $ in already rich neighborhoods. What I have learned is that the city won't invest in your neighborhood until some white people move in. It looks like white people made it to the Anacostia River and decided that they had enough. |
Anonymous
WTF? So because you lived in unsanitary conditions with a baby everyone else should too? You’re lucky you both didn’t get super sick from mold. |
Anonymous
So beyond not upzoning Cleveland Park, what should be done? Not saying I disagree, because it’s really just going to provide more options to those on the cusp of affording that area vs. those that actually need more options, but I dont know that the status quo is the answer either. |
Anonymous
Exactly- unless they bought 20 years ago, those people are renting, not homeowners. This is essentially one of my coworkers, they are immigrants who came here with little savings. He makes about that and his wife is a SAHM because one of their kids is special needs, they rent a 2BR in a neighborhood with good public schools and have no plans to buy. The way they talk they are living the dream, owning a home is an American thing. |
Anonymous
This. Also Aspen Hill. |
Anonymous
Upzoning in Ward 3 will do nothing more than drive those people out of the city. The better approach is to make the less desirable areas more desirable. DC Govt certainly can fund infrastructure, public parks, rec centers, bridges, libraries, schools in other parts of DC that would those parts more attractive. DC has done some of this, particularly with some libraries, schools, and Frederick Douglas Memorial Bridge. But much more can be done of course. Find commercial property that can be converted to residential, whether condos or townhouses. This entire discussion seems to focus on what happens in Ward 3. The parts of the City that have natural beauty care not in Ward 3. Look at the River. Plenty of opportunity to turn DC into a River city. |
Anonymous
Yeash. You have a lot of blah, blah, blah that I tune out when you assume that every white person who wants so to live in a decent house is entitled. And you should really learn how to spell “Barack.” Especially, since you are on a first name basis and all. |
Anonymous
I imagine you to be someone that likes to use words like "exclusionary zoning" to explain why you deserve to be able to buy property in a white neighborhood. Thanks for exposing yourself and your priorities. It is clarifying to be proved right that you are using using us to promote yourselves. |
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"I imagine you to be someone that likes to use words like "exclusionary zoning" to explain why you deserve to be able to buy property in a white neighborhood. Thanks for exposing yourself and your priorities. It is clarifying to be proved right that you are using using us to promote yourselves."
You actually could not be more wrong. And your response is so immature, that I think maybe you are a teenager or younger? I'm just asking you not to group all white people into a single category. Some of us not only support, but also are in need of progressive housing policies. But what ever, you keep judging people based on your myopic POV. |
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Adding more housing units will make housing affordable. Just look at Navy Yard.
It's probably the most densely populated neighborhood now in the city. It's almost nothing but condos. And 600 square foot condos there cost....more than the single family homes that were knocked down to make way for them? Wait, that wasnt supposed to happen. I thought increasing density was supposed to push prices down? |
Anonymous
But there are houses available for them elsewhere- they won’t be competing with the condo dwellers for the SFH in PG, for instance. |
Anonymous
Density suppresses increases in housing prices - this has been thoroughly documented in research. It's a settled matter. The SFHs in Near Southeast were knocked down when 395 was built, the redevelopment of Navy Yard displaced mostly warehouses and night clubs, but that's neither here nor there. You're examining this from the wrong perspective. The question you should be asking is how much more expensive SFHs in Navy Yard would be if those condos hadn't been built. |
Anonymous
Oh i see. So the black people who were pushed out of Navy Yard to make way for white people can go live somewhere else? That's not in DC? That's what you're saying? Cool, cool. Not racist at all. |