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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.
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Right, but the point is the lower-income folks who can't stay were largely transient to begin with. They lost their homes before, but were "replaced" by residents of a similar socioeconomic class. Now they're "displaced" by people who are different.

[quote]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]

DC does a whole Hell of a lot to provide subsidized housing to the region's poor. Your argument that "such efforts have not been made" has no basis in fact whatsoever. Some might wish--in addition to doing more per capita than any other area municipality--that DC did even more to provide subsidies to the region's poor, but that's a different argument.

The argument that can be made is that DC's supply of subsidies doesn't keep up for demand for subsidies, but that's largely because DC has been the de facto reservoir for poverty in the DC/MD/VA region. That massive concentration of poverty is a symptom of a century of racist policies, and exists to this day.  The answer to the question is either a) a complete transformation of federal anti-poverty policy; or b) policies which favor new middle-class residents, and subsidies that poor residents can use to pay for cheaper housing throughout the region.[/quote]

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