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[quote=Anonymous][quote]But nobody is selling their $2 mil Cleveland Park home due to an uptick in already very low crime levels. The people actually impacted are renters.[/quote]

Wasn't part of the desirability of those houses the walkability of the neighborhood? The ability to have kids out and about? Violent crime on WMATA is way up too, even at rush hour. Previously it was the short commute but that is not as much of a driving factor with remote/hybrid work. This thread has focused on FH because of the shooting, there have been a lot of issues in Cleveland Park too, thus Frumin being at a public safety meeting there last week.

Housing values have dropped in DC before, can happen again. I'd love for all of this to turn around but don't see any sign. And the CRE crash is going to have an unprecedented impact.

Some areas that gentrified have slid back quite a bit re: crime and quality of life issues, think Chinatown, NoMa, Columbia Heights, Petworth. W3 was always insulated to a large extent but that no longer appears to be the case. Some seem far less happy with Deal and JR than was true a few years back, will families be less inclined to buy in W3, especially if commuting 5 days a week is not a factor?

I do not think that the issues at play will be confined in impact to renters in a handful of buildings in Forest Hills. (Or Cleveland Park, or Woodly Park, or Cathedral Heights or Chevy Chase, etc, all experiencing similar issues). A shooting on a busy corner at 3pm on Saturday, near tennis courts and a playground is a spillover effect, no? What, 2 blocks from BreadFurst and just a bit more from Politics & Prose, prized for walkability? Will the bike lanes be bulletproof?

It's rumored that the victims and shooters were not residents of either of the buildings on that corner. 3 shots, only 1 hit the victim. You could be driving by and be hit by a stray. It's alarming. [/quote]

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