Bowser proposes to add over 1,500 new affordable housing units to "Rock Creek West"
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Anonymous
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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?? |
Anonymous
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How about instead of fighting progress, we double down on getting the city to provide the right level of service to these new neighbors so that they can flourish. I’m sure it will have some negative affects on parking or whatever, but we can afford to give up a little privilege to give other people a shot.
The other options is to start protesting “I’m all for social justice, BUT...” |
Anonymous
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I honestly don't know where she is going to get the land to do this. Super Fresh in Spring Valley? Developers have been eyeing that for a long time and high priced condos are more lucrative than low income housing.
The Palisades has the Safeway site. I believe there are already plans for apartments there. But this gets us nowhere to the 1500+ units she is eyeing for WoTP. Just upzone existing SFH neighborhoods in Wards 2 and 3 and let property owners carve up existing plats into 2-4 unit buildings. Let the growth happen organically. 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. But again, where is the land? |
Anonymous
| I know everyone is going to get fixated on the prospect of poor people moving into wealthy neighborhoods, but someone should ask how exactly this plan is going to result in affordable housing. It seems vague how that's going to work. Simply building more units is not going to change prices. (Yes, yes, yes, increasing supply puts downward pressure on prices. But lower prices attract more demand, which pushes prices back up). |
Anonymous
She's planning on giving vouchers to low income District residents, which they can then use to compensate the landlords of large buildings in Wards 2 and 3. My guess is that the city will aggressively police and fine buildings that try to avoid accepting voucher holding residents. With the debacle of Segwick Gardens, I think landlords may be hesitant to swap out those small number of below market long term tenants for tenants who are needing wrap-around services (but come armed with a reliable voucher from the city). The City Council needs to start providing meaningful checks and balances against this Mayor. I pray that Racine primaries Bowser in the next Mayor race; we need a rational leader, not a bomb thrower. |
Anonymous
| Shes annoying |
Anonymous
| Curious - has she opened her home to anyone? Guessing she has the same English basement as all of us that she could "voucher" out. No? |
Anonymous
Adopting a child doesn’t count as opening your home to someone? 
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Anonymous
I assume she considers her child a member of her family so no. |
Anonymous
It was a conscious choice nonetheless and no one is asking upper class folks to open their homes, just open the neighborhood. |
Anonymous
| So she will propose that the first development dedicated to affordable housing be in her neighborhood, correct? |
Anonymous
It won’t be unless you show some aptitude for anything but whining and rally some residents or run for political office yourself. What’s the matter you too lazy to do anything sit idle and complain about everything? |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
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. |
Anonymous
This new housing plan is the first in a series of steps that ends with upper nw neighborhoods (Chevy Chase, barnaby woods, etc.) all getting rezoned for the empty middle schools and high schools EOtP in petworth |