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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one told the Post that people don't say "gentrification" anymore. "Increasing density" is the new term of art.

"In the District, low-income residents are being pushed out of neighborhoods at some of the highest rates in the country, according to the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, which sought to track demographic and economic changes in neighborhoods in the 50 largest U.S. cities from 2000 to 2016....

[b]In the Navy Yard neighborhood, about 77 percent of residents were identified as low income in 2000. Sixteen years later, that population dropped to 21 percent.[/b]

Most of the people pushed out of these economic hot spots are black and low income, according to the data."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/in-the-district-gentrification-means-widespread-displacement-report-says/2019/04/26/950a0c00-6775-11e9-8985-4cf30147bdca_story.html?outputType=amp

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Mayor Bowser and the Density Bros day that the way to end gentrification is to build lots of dense luxury housing in Ward 3 so gentrifiers don’t have to move to NE and SE.

How many low-income residents ([b]numbers, not percent[/b]) were there in the Navy Yard neighborhood in 2000 and 2016?

It's quite evident that some DCUM-demographic people in DC oppose building more housing in DC. But to hear DCUM-demographic people in DC say that building more housing in DC is bad because it decreases the proportion of DC residents who are black and low-income - well, I need a few stiff drinks.[/quote][/quote]

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