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[quote=Anonymous]"Pay the poor to move" is a misrepresentation. My position is that it should be DC policy to target a level of poverty well below what we have now. That doesn't mean we pay people to move. It means we build housing for more middle class residents. In other words, the denominator gets larger.  And we don't see it as a policy failing if our demographics start to look more like the suburbs (still with more poverty, but not 13% sub-$10k to the suburbs' 5%.)

As far as Penn Quarter goes, obviously a "host of government policies led to the development of Penn Quarter". But I don't think it's unreasonable to ask--if that's the singular example of DC government catering to "the affluent"--that you actually give specifics if you're going to argue that that development took place in favor of the rich at the expense of the poor.

My understanding of how development took place in Penn Quarter is pretty sketchy, but this seems like a good place to start:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Avenue_National_Historic_Site#Rejuvenation

But I am curious: If the redevelopment of Penn Quarter is an example of DC's kowtowing to "affluent people", what would be a counter-factual of how that area could have developed to the benefit of middle-class people? All we seem to be talking about is the very poor and "the affluent".
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