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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

People are literally arguing on here that preventing housing construction reduces gentrification. So which is it?

[Anonymous]

In some DC neighborhoods, they're at a point where gentrification is desperately needed. The homes need to be gutted and redone or they won't be habitable. It's been a long time with no maintenance and they need everything. If those neighborhoods don't gentrify they'll end up like the abandoned homes in Detroit--boarded up and empty. The "original" habitants just don't have the money to do the needed work. Gentrifiers are able to pay for the work to be done. It's part of the lifecycle of a neighborhood.

[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.

How is this preventing gentrification? Isn’t this exactly what gentrification is?

[Anonymous]

Nothing. I was too busy trying to save the traditional White character of Anacostia.

Christ OP, neighborhoods change

[Anonymous]

OP, when did you buy your home, from whom, and where did you move from?

[Anonymous]

Gentrification is amazing. We should be encouraging it, especially when it results in more building

[Anonymous]

OP is a troll

[Anonymous]

What causes racially segregated neighbors to begin with? Bad schools, crime, housing that is degrading?

Not something that anyone should have to deal with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, when did you buy your home, from whom, and where did you move from?

I’m a renter.

[Anonymous]

This thread doesn't even matter since your privilege moves where you move. If it's a black neighborhood, the real estate values are low...until white people decide they like it. The one-off profit a decades long Black owner are nothing when compared to the benefits your parents (and you) had in there (likely) non diverse enclave.
Many gentrifier's say they want diversity, while acknowledging that their very presence increases property values beyond the reach of many, if not most people of color. Sadly,you are the death knell of urban diversity. Your social and political leanings don't really matter, as individually it's not your fault; it's just how ya'll have been rolling for hundreds of years.
Like it or not, it's a fact that whenever you show up (choose your own historical year up to 2023), wherever you show up (pick any culture i.e. Petworth locally), non-whites suffer.

....Queue the whataboutisms

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, when did you buy your home, from whom, and where did you move from?

I’m a renter.

So no real investment in the neighborhood. No skin in the game. Fly by night.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, when did you buy your home, from whom, and where did you move from?

I’m a renter.

Still haven’t told us about those “very locally owned” businesses you support. Do you even live in DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, when did you buy your home, from whom, and where did you move from?

I’m a renter.

And you are pissed that prices change and think rent should stay the same year after year, right? I preferred the price of a coffee in 1995. Maybe all prices should stay the same for ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, when did you buy your home, from whom, and where did you move from?

I’m a renter.

So no real investment in the neighborhood. No skin in the game. Fly by night.

We get it, you hate poor people who can’t afford to own.

[Anonymous]

OP is the gentrification.