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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One big difference is that the commercial downtown is still in far worse shape now than in the 80s or 90s.  Residential areas may have been worse decades ago but post-Covid the core of DC has never looked worse in terms of commercial vacancies, open drug use, and mentally ill people constantly making nuisances of themselves.  [/quote]

Are you kidding? In the 80's and 90's there was no part of DC that wasn't blighted. Even along K Street the public spaces were taken over by the homeless, there was a tent city on PA Ave. [/quote]

Not really throughout the 90’s. My office moved to Columbia Square when it was new in the late 80’s because the developer was a client and we were surrounded by crime and blight. But the area improved quickly and was fine by the mid-90’s. Same with Capitol Hill.  It was dangerous in the 80’s, but improved dramatically throughout the 90’s. The Union Station remodel was done in 1988, and it really was the stimulus for change. It’s so sad to see it return to the state it is in now.

The difference now is that there are more affluent people living and working in the high crime areas. [/quote]

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