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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are you kidding? Everyone in DC loves gentrification. Except no one calls it gentrification anymore, Boomer. Now we call it "increasing density." [/quote]

I'm for increasing density in the neighborhood where I live, i.e., near Tenleytown. That's not gentrification. [/quote]

Ok, Mr. Pedantry. In 99 percent of the city where "increasing density" is actually happening it is identical to gentrification. [/quote]

Except that's the area where density can be most significantly increased near transit -- because it's not very dense right now and is near multiple bus lines and Metro stops -- and where the existing residents have the most political clout to prevent it. So positioning "increased density" as always bad helps prevent densification of an area that's gentrification-proof because it's already wealthy. I'm against displacing existing residents in "gentrifying" neighborhoods, and for building more affordable housing in neighborhoods that have the space for it and currently don't have much. It's unfortunate that arguments against gentrification have also been used to prevent other kinds of development.[/quote]

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