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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My guess is that housing prices have not dropped as much as one might think just because there is not a lot of housing stock of that size available.  Mt Pleasant is more expensive.  U Street---which has much smaller houses---is super busy and the prices are astronomical.  Hill is a great neighborhood but a difficult place to live if you have to commute to work anywhere else in the District.

The problem with Columbia Heights was always that there was simply too much high poverty subsidized housing concentrated in Columbia Heights Village and the older large apartments lining and adjacent to 14th Street.   There was a lot of crime in Columbia Heights PRIOR to the building boom around the metro in 2008-2012.   Jim Graham, crook though he was, was tough on crime and vigilant about holding MPD to account to try to maintain order to protect the redeveloped businesses.   Brianne "decriminalize everything" Nadeau is the opposite.    In contrast to 14th street, the areas between 13th Street and Sherman Avenue have a better feel---they were always more rowhouse residential; the restaurants along 11th Street were local and grew organically into the older retail spaces along that block.  [/quote]

This is spot on.  We moved from CH 8 years ago, and I was really sad about it at the time.  In retrospect, one of the best decisions we ever made.  [/quote]

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