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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look who is advocating for this - it is developers and people who make money from them.  It definitely is not current City residents.[/quote]

Look who is advocating against this - it is rich and privileged City residents who want to stuff all the people with less financial means into the West End instead of coexisting with them as an urban community.[/quote]
As a non-Alexandria resident but long time DC area resident it’s clear to be that you don’t live there and have not lived here for a long time either.

Your charges of racism and complaints are just laughable. Alexandria has so much poverty and very few “rich” people. It’s just so absurd that it’s hilarious to see someone make these complaints.

Stop making a fool of yourself already. [/quote]
I just checked and there are only 12 houses on the market in Alexandria over $2m and they are basically either on the water or historic in Old Towne. It’s hilariously stupid for someone to claim that the rich people in Alexandria have been trying to shut out of the poor when such large parts of the city are housing projects. Aside from the abundant low income housing, probably a third of the city is just middle class Black folk. Whoever is trying to paint opposition to this as racist is really looking like a massive idiot. [/quote]

And the North Ridge area where many of the more expensive SFH are concentrated, is now the subject of a concerted effort to end SFH zoning.  Only 14% of Alexandria housing stock is SFHs.  The decision-makers are bought by the developers.[/quote]
What I am seeing is a weaponizing of “woke” social justice language in service of developer profits. I find it sad and profoundly gross.[/quote]

Woke et al isn’t a word. It is a marketing term, invented to control people and profit off of them, and now used by others looking to make a buck. There’s nothing sad or gross about it, that wasn’t already done by so-called non-profits that specialize in dividing people.

What should be offend are attempts to rebrand Arlandria/Chirilhauga to “Del Ray North”. It’s not Del Ray, doesn’t need to be Del Ray, and building a bunch of glass mid-rises is not and never will be Del Ray.[/quote]

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