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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did I say that I wanted to keep Potomac Gardens and Hopkins as they are?  No.  I merely said I wanted the discussion to make it clear that not everyone who lived there was a criminal.  You're the one making assumptions about my position on public housing.  I'm all for discussing solutions but not in over-the-top terms implicating everyone under the age of 65 as a danger to the neighborhood.  I'm not the pp who accused other pps of racism but if you would like to avoid such accusations, it would be best to moderate your language.
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Do you honestly think that anyone cares whether or not you're going to make accusations of "racism"?  That charge is absolutely the last refuge of the scoundrel when discussing these matters, and utterly destroys any credibility you might have with anyone who might be sitting on the fence.

Seriously, if you want to do right by the folks living in PG, you might want to dedicate your energies to figuring out a way to dismantling the whole enterprise in an orderly fashion, and making sure everyone the current residents have got a place to go.

[b]Because, at this rate, we're heading for a tipping point where community support for it evaporates.  And when that happens, it they really will just turn off the lights and give folks some vouchers as a fig leaf.[/b]

Public housing is a form of charity.  And like it or not, charity depends on the goodwill of the person doing the giving.[/quote]
Oh puh-lease, I live in this neighborhood and have lived here for years.  The community "support" for PG is non-existent.

If you would read my statement more closely, I said I was NOT the pp who accused you of racism and I merely suggested that you could avoid such charges by moderating your language.

If you are really interested in replacing PG with mixed-income housing, then [i]you[/i] should be pressuring the city to get Potomac Gardens back on the New Communities list where it used to be.  PG and H have been slated for replacement for years so why don't you work on getting it moved up higher in line for replacement?  It will happen faster if you can build a broad-based coalition supporting it but if you want to make it broad-based you'll have to moderate your language and show the world that you actually care about what happens to the people who live there, not just the people who live nearby.[/quote]

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