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

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Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

Oh come on. This isn't about "preventing gentrification." And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.

On the contrary, it is about gentrification in every way. The teens who brick are 1) claiming "their" space and 2) expressing the "rage" being stoked by extremely irresponsible people who feed them inflammatory lines about how gentrifiers are invading "their" turf. Braining white people with bricks is literally their reaction to gentrification, and too many adults who should know better tell them they're justified if they want to kill or permanently disable their neighbors.

I don't know that they're thinking far enough ahead to realize there could eventually be backlash. They're mostly thinking nothing will happen to them even if they get caught.

Why is this not prosecuted as a hate crime?

It is barely prosecuted at all. That's our problem here in DC.

My investment advisor was bricked while walking with his wife on a week day around 1:30 in the afternoon. He was a couple of blocks from St Patrick's Cathedral in a good neighborhood. He was bricked so hard he thought something had fallen from the top of the building and he was seriously injured. He and his wife managed to walk a couple of blocks to where a cop was walking and managed to get the 'bricker" arrested. The "bricker was released in about 5 hours. Believe me, you don't want to be bricked.

My investment advisor was going to buy property in NYC but now he is not going to. He and his wife also avoid going to NYC now.

NYC isn’t “gentrifying” especially in that area. That’s an unfortunate incident but not really sure how it’s related to gentrification. Increase in crime and lawlessness in cities though, sure

And cops and prosecutors who allow someone who commits violent crimes to be back on the streets 5 hours later should be fired. Someone like that will just continue assaulting and assaulting and assaulting.

Yes please

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard gentrifying parents be referred to as “sacrificing their kid” if they send their kid to the local school.

There was a panel with the parents and kids who went from a very nice elementary to the assigned middle school in DC. Glowing reviews.
Kids were fabulous and allegedly didn’t experience much hardship (a bit of schoolyard bullying). I was initially very excited but a little put off by what seemed to be a school within a school (most of these kids didn’t have most classes with their peers who came from the other feeder schools because they were in advanced classes). We then happened to encounter a couple of the children at a party shortly thereafter. The parents didn’t say anything more, but the children told our DC that the experience was very mixed, that they were expected to portray a rosy picture of everyone getting along, and told them in no uncertain terms that it was a pretty rough ride and to stay away it at all possible. It’s a true story with no particular lesson. I remember being shocked at the time but realized there’s a ton of self censorship in the stories people tell today. Good to check and not to hear just what you want to hear. Confirmation bias is real and cuts both ways

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

People who protest gentrification are the one who wants everything be racially segregated.

And those who protest gentrification presumably also oppose upzoning. Both involve changing the character of a neighborhood against the wishes of its residents. Of course, with gentrification, those with homes in historically cheap areas benefit from substantial increases in home value (i.e., wealth creation), so they have a financial upside. And, no, property taxes do not increase that quickly, as property tax increases are subject to annual caps.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard gentrifying parents be referred to as “sacrificing their kid” if they send their kid to the local school.

There was a panel with the parents and kids who went from a very nice elementary to the assigned middle school in DC. Glowing reviews.
Kids were fabulous and allegedly didn’t experience much hardship (a bit of schoolyard bullying). I was initially very excited but a little put off by what seemed to be a school within a school (most of these kids didn’t have most classes with their peers who came from the other feeder schools because they were in advanced classes). We then happened to encounter a couple of the children at a party shortly thereafter. The parents didn’t say anything more, but the children told our DC that the experience was very mixed, that they were expected to portray a rosy picture of everyone getting along, and told them in no uncertain terms that it was a pretty rough ride and to stay away it at all possible. It’s a true story with no particular lesson. I remember being shocked at the time but realized there’s a ton of self censorship in the stories people tell today. Good to check and not to hear just what you want to hear. Confirmation bias is real and cuts both ways

There are a lot of rich people who didn't go to bad schools now forcing their kids to attend them to make some sort of point. I went to a terrible school that no one wanted to attend but had no other options and now I sacrifice to keep my kids away from that experience. There are no rosey pictures being around poverty.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard gentrifying parents be referred to as “sacrificing their kid” if they send their kid to the local school.

There was a panel with the parents and kids who went from a very nice elementary to the assigned middle school in DC. Glowing reviews.
Kids were fabulous and allegedly didn’t experience much hardship (a bit of schoolyard bullying). I was initially very excited but a little put off by what seemed to be a school within a school (most of these kids didn’t have most classes with their peers who came from the other feeder schools because they were in advanced classes). We then happened to encounter a couple of the children at a party shortly thereafter. The parents didn’t say anything more, but the children told our DC that the experience was very mixed, that they were expected to portray a rosy picture of everyone getting along, and told them in no uncertain terms that it was a pretty rough ride and to stay away it at all possible. It’s a true story with no particular lesson. I remember being shocked at the time but realized there’s a ton of self censorship in the stories people tell today. Good to check and not to hear just what you want to hear. Confirmation bias is real and cuts both ways

There are a lot of rich people who didn't go to bad schools now forcing their kids to attend them to make some sort of point. I went to a terrible school that no one wanted to attend but had no other options and now I sacrifice to keep my kids away from that experience. There are no rosey pictures being around poverty.

That improves the schools, makes the area safer and raises property values.

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The trouble is that the schools haven’t improved. You could say there isn’t a sufficient critical mass, but that’s not it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The trouble is that the schools haven’t improved. You could say there isn’t a sufficient critical mass, but that’s not it.

Many elementary schools in DC have improved because of gentrification.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard gentrifying parents be referred to as “sacrificing their kid” if they send their kid to the local school.

There was a panel with the parents and kids who went from a very nice elementary to the assigned middle school in DC. Glowing reviews.
Kids were fabulous and allegedly didn’t experience much hardship (a bit of schoolyard bullying). I was initially very excited but a little put off by what seemed to be a school within a school (most of these kids didn’t have most classes with their peers who came from the other feeder schools because they were in advanced classes). We then happened to encounter a couple of the children at a party shortly thereafter. The parents didn’t say anything more, but the children told our DC that the experience was very mixed, that they were expected to portray a rosy picture of everyone getting along, and told them in no uncertain terms that it was a pretty rough ride and to stay away it at all possible. It’s a true story with no particular lesson. I remember being shocked at the time but realized there’s a ton of self censorship in the stories people tell today. Good to check and not to hear just what you want to hear. Confirmation bias is real and cuts both ways

This definitely happens. The omerta is real.

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Many (?!) and how much?
What are these good middle schools and high schools now that weren’t 10 years ago?

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Anonymous wrote:The trouble is that the schools haven’t improved. You could say there isn’t a sufficient critical mass, but that’s not it.

Many elementary schools in DC have improved because of gentrification.

It’s mainly the kids though. My kid went to an elementary school that “flipped” due to gentrification- the absolute best teachers there had been there for decades.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve heard gentrifying parents be referred to as “sacrificing their kid” if they send their kid to the local school.

There was a panel with the parents and kids who went from a very nice elementary to the assigned middle school in DC. Glowing reviews.
Kids were fabulous and allegedly didn’t experience much hardship (a bit of schoolyard bullying). I was initially very excited but a little put off by what seemed to be a school within a school (most of these kids didn’t have most classes with their peers who came from the other feeder schools because they were in advanced classes). We then happened to encounter a couple of the children at a party shortly thereafter. The parents didn’t say anything more, but the children told our DC that the experience was very mixed, that they were expected to portray a rosy picture of everyone getting along, and told them in no uncertain terms that it was a pretty rough ride and to stay away it at all possible. It’s a true story with no particular lesson. I remember being shocked at the time but realized there’s a ton of self censorship in the stories people tell today. Good to check and not to hear just what you want to hear. Confirmation bias is real and cuts both ways

This definitely happens. The omerta is real.

I mean honestly, the kids were getting punched in the break and lived a siege mentality. If this were a 90s sitcom, these same parents would have been unstuffing them from their lockers at pick up time. I can’t think of one parent who bought in who hadn’t subsequently moved to the suburbs because of the schools. That’s a failure of the system, imagination and taxpayer $. Yet the education people in the government keep their jobs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The trouble is that the schools haven’t improved. You could say there isn’t a sufficient critical mass, but that’s not it.

Many elementary schools in DC have improved because of gentrification.

It’s mainly the kids though. My kid went to an elementary school that “flipped” due to gentrification- the absolute best teachers there had been there for decades.

But what is the flip — the delta? Best teachers there in decades could be objectively good or still substandard?
A few years ago during a school visit, middle schoolers were doing a single digit multiplication using transparencies!
And yet the teachers work really hard. What gives?

[Anonymous]

I am confused by the release of someone who attacked a stranger with a brick for no reason-if that person presented at an er with that history they would absolutely be admitted (including involuntary admission if necessary.) it’s so strange to think of them just being sent out the door when they are quite clearly a grave risk to others.

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What are you talking about? Can’t get a bed for love or money, honey. It’s right back on the street.

DC Council refuses to use the word “crime” outside of their dumbass “crime bill”. That tells you everything you need to know. They don’t bricking a nice white mom in the head is a big problem at all

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What did anyone do for that father who got beaten ti within an inch of his life by the local kids? Nothing.
DC Council issued a statement? Nope.