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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm strongly in favor of improving our neighborhood. Who wants to live in crime and filth?[/quote]

Well people would rather not have their rent double and end up homeless.[/quote]

People also don't want to be shot by 13 year old carjackers or have their kids mowed down by ATVs walking home from school. The increasing disorder and lawlessness is the most pressing problem in DC.[/quote]

You can't have nice things in an urban environment. [/quote]

London, Paris, Hong Kong. All even more urban than DC and they would not tolerate these levels of violence and filth.[/quote]

This!! Cities can be glorious. They don't have to suck.

Also be critical of claims of idigeneity made by whatever population is complaining about gentrification in any given place. Plenty of neighborhoods in DC were built by one group or another and have seen multiple demographic transitions over the last 150 years. A neighborhood doesn't "belong" to anyone.

If you grew up in a high cost of living city yourself, can you afford your childhood home? My middle income dual professional family can't. No one owes you the right to live wherever you want to live forever, and no one is insulating my family from downward social mobility caused by rising costs. C'mon![/quote]

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