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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]this happens all over the country as areas redevelop and become more desirable

it's really just a class thing

I wish there were more middle class and higher black folks coming back to DC vs PG county to make this less of a racial issue

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We're here!  Many of us in the upper 16th St. area.  I'd say, however, that residents in that area are trending more UMC than true middle class.  Most middle class folks I know, regardless of race, are buying in areas like close-in Silver Spring.

Agree with the article that there is a need for a lot more affordable housing across the city.  I wish the NIMBYs would accept that changes in density are necessary so that the entire city doesn't eventually become a rich enclave.[/quote]We are getting increased density in my neighborhood by the Potomac Ave metro as is appropriate but what worries me is that it seems as if so little of it is affordable housing.  Oh, and you all will find this amusing:  A huge project going up right across from the metro is called the Blackbird and its website boasts of "bohemian soul" meeting "button touch access" and it features quotes from Hunter S. Thompson and Biggie Smalls, pictures of Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Muhammad Ali, and Aretha Franklin.  So not only are they trying to make this place look hip (love my neighborhood but it's not Columbia Heights) but they are marketing it to people who consider themselves hip and want luxury at the same time.....eh, isn't that a bit of a contradiction?  Here's the website: https://www.blackbirdsedc.com/  This is so weird.[/quote]

PP.  Ugh.  I see what they're trying to do, but not sure I love this co-opting of cool and the city's African American history in the name of a gentrification project.[/quote]

That is so stupid.  At least they could use actually Washingtonians in their imagery... Duke Ellington, Marvin Gaye, Chuck Brown, Henry Rollins, etc.   Either way, it's super annoying.[/quote]

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