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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm curious: if we were talking about a return of black middle-class professionals to these neighborhoods, would we hear even a peep of protest? No. There's very little evidence that gentrification makes things worse, and some evidence that it makes things better for folks who remain. What seems to upset some people is that gentrification does not fix every existing social ill.[/quote]

I thought part of the gentrification was the black middle class - not necessarily returning to DC, but coming here for the first time -- just like a lot of the young white people coming here after college or grad school for their first job -- and remaining in the city, instead of moving to the suburbs, when they marry and have children.

I agree - gentrification is better for the lower-income people who stay, but not all of them can stay.  Be definition, the most of them must go -- somewhere -- in order for the gentrifiers to be in the majority.

Their life could get better, perhaps, if specific efforts were made to help them -- with or without gentrification.  But such efforts have not been made.   wishing it doesn't make it so.[/quote]

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