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[quote=Anonymous]Location. I agree with others that the house itself has some drawbacks, including a lack of functional outdoor space and some awkwardness in the layout. But that’s true of almost any row house in the city— I’ve seen bigger and much more expensive houses on the Hill with the same quirks, and yet they still demand more than this house.

H Street is at an interesting crossroads because it’s being pulled in several directions. Some people want it to be more like Cap Hill— a little sleepy, very family friendly, but still convenient to services and commerce. Some of the developments on H lean more in the direction of U street and Shaw, catering to a young professional crowd. And then importantly, you have the folks who have been around H for decades, who look at both of the above groups and say, “Go away, gentrifiers.”

H & 8th is pretty emblematic of those tensions— houses like this, the huge development on the south side of H completed earlier this year, and the dozens of folks who camp out near the bus stops as they have for years.

It is not a comfortable coexistence.[/quote]

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