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[quote=Anonymous]One thing I know from growing up in the inner city, owning real estate, and watching trends occur as time passes is that gentrification happens, things get nicer, some people complain, there are roadblocks thrown up out of anger, but gentrification continues and things just get nicer.

Also, I’ve seen DC go from a completely fked up bureaucratic nightmare where Mayor Barry gave out contracts and jobs like candy to his friends, many of whom were as grossly incompetent as he was. Now we still have a bureaucratic nightmare government that is capable at handing out parking tickets and raising revenue by speed camera and we have an Uber liberal city council intent on shoe horning in as much subsidized housing for the poor as possible, all whole ignoring rising crime and pushing on with policies to encourage early release.

I hope we don’t have another cycle into worse territory like we had in the 90’s, but like all things places go up and down. I see these bleating complaints about food deserts and just yawn. These same discussions were occurring in the 1950’s and 1960’s up until today. If people want to change their community they would do so. People need to take action for themselves sometimes. All the patronizing, soft bigotry of low expectations nonsense where handouts are expected at all times won’t work. The complaints will happen, but things will just keep rolling. Gentrification will keep rolling. What is past is prologue.[/quote]

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