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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol people literally refuse to send their kids to schools like Justice, fight against rezoning & busing, fight against multifamily housing in their own neighborhoods…and then wonder why the areas near Lake Barcroft have such concentrated poverty & associated problems.

You all caused that.[/quote]

Barcroft didn’t cause the poverty around Bailey’s Crossroads and Culmore. The Metro did.

Early plans had the Yellow Line terminating around Bailey’s Crossroads by following 395. Huge apartment buildings and other multi family housing was built in anticipation of a train that never came. As a result these developments found themselves in a car-dominated “middle of nowhere suburbia.” It didn’t take long for their desirability to fall and began capturing low-income and immigrant populations.[/quote]

While there were a bunch of plans from the early 1960s that were scrapped, I don't think this is accurate.  The low-income housing near Lake Barcroft today consists primarily of older garden apartments that pre-date plans for Metro by decades and the stations elsewhere actually got built before new housing got built around them.

The low-income housing isn't in the "middle of nowhere" either. [b] It's in a fairly close-in, desirable location, and that's reflected in the prices of single-family homes in the area, which are high despite the concerns about the schools.[/b]  If the garden apartments in Seven Corners, Culmore, and Bailey's Crossroads were torn down and replaced with single-family homes and townhouses, they would command a fairly high price - particularly if they were replacing the worst housing in Culmore - but the local politicians in the Mason District don't want that to happen.  So the slumlords continue to rake in dollars from their run-down properties. [/quote]
+1 the SFH neighborhoods literally across from Culmore on 7 are generally selling for $800k+. Culmore is a self-contained area.[/quote]

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