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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Kennedy has been gentrifying for nearly 20 years. [/b]My friend was beat into a multi-day coma outside his rowhouse right off Kennedy over a decade ago in the middle of a weekday afternoon by multiple teens.

That street ain’t ever going to change. [/quote]

This suggests also that gentrification isn't solving the crime issue in this setting.  I wonder what will happen to the abundance of new condos that are being built on Kennedy.  Also, given those condos, I would expect the developers to care about the crime, even if no one else does.[/quote]

Gentrification makes crime worse before it makes it better.

There is a middle period, which we're in right now, where there is enough of the "old neighborhood" to continue the dealing and shooting, but fewer and fewer customers (yuppies don't tend to buy their drugs on the corner) which causes even more intense competition between crews.

Unfortunately large public housing complexes that remain in nearly entirely gentrified neighborhoods (Columbia Heights, I'm looking at you) act as reservoirs for these crews where they can remain in enough concentration to stay active whereas without them they would have been dispersed enough to have to dissolve.

Get rid of the projects and disperse the residents into new, unconcentrated housing throughout the city and you'll solve the gang/drug violence situation.  [/quote]

Except the impetus is on preserving public housing because there is a dearth of affordable housing in DC. Look at Res 13. It will essentially be a glorified “mixed income” project when completed. I’m sure crime won’t be an issue.[/quote]

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