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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not a housing shortage that worries GGW. It is the inability to Kickstart new projects in desirable locations. Why don't they build a mixed use development in Anacostia. Because their developer cronies want the big money instantly from other wards. They have no long term vision or even desire to right the injustices they speak of. Only developing green space and trying to sell more homes in desirable areas.

When was the last time GGW ventured east to actually help anybody and not just use their 'data' as some sort of fear mongering for one of their I'll conceived get rich quick schemes?[/quote]

"They" are building in Anacostia. But among the advantages of building in Ward 3 are that (a) new housing doesn't raise the price of housing in the area, spurring displacement of existing residents, because it's not possible to gentrify an already expensive neighborhoods and (b) spreading affordable housing into neighborhoods that currently have very little of it helps prevent clustering of poverty.[/quote]

So you'd like a concentration of poor people in Anacostia? interesting.[/quote]

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