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[quote=Anonymous]Gentrification is causes prices to go up in previously affordable neighborhoods. In DC, gentrification has made it difficult for anyone considered “middle class” (median $60k ish) to buy a home. Housing costs go up when properties are renovated and new businesses come in to service the people who move into those renovated row houses that are a dime a dozen in DC.

I lived in Columbia Heights from 2011-2020 as a gentrifier and I completely recognize (now and at the time) that every time I went to brunch and then went to Target and stopped at the farmer’s market that I was contributing to the gentrification. Did it being nice things like farmer’s markets to the neighborhood? Sure. But it would have been nice if there was any affordable housing at all so that the neighborhood didn’t end up split between entry level DC worker bees, dual lawyer families with 2 under 2, and public housing projects.

Pretending you don’t understand why something is bad when you actually just don’t think it’s bad is pretty transparent though. There are pros and cons to everything. Gentrification always pushes our people of color though, and for me, that’s enough to go ahead and say that the Target and the 47 brunch options and the farmer’s market aren’t necessarily worth it. [/quote]

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