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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about the opposite?  Dilute the FARMS families to the burbs, where there's more likely to be a critical mass of middle-class that could absorb it?  Rents are a lot cheaper  outside of the city, and it's not as though there has ever been any real opportunity for life change for folks in multigenerational poverty as long as they stay in the city.[/quote]

Ah yes, ship the poor folks out to the burbs and make them commute into the city for their jobs.  [/quote]

If they had worthwhile jobs in the city, they wouldn't be FARMS in the first place.

And consider that thousands of people commute into the city because they can't afford to live in the city.  Lower cost of living outside the city can more than offset the cost of commuting.[/quote]

You realize families were living here for generations before you thought it was "cool" to move to Cap Hill or you WOTP monster house. [/quote]

Exactly.....these gentrifiers kill me [/quote]

Ah -- the DC nativist arguement.  Good one.  I've lived in DC for 17 years, 15 of those in Cap Hill.  Am I a gentrifier?  I moved here single and now I'm raising a family.  But it doesn't really matter if I've lived here 16 years, 16 generations or 16 minutes.  There's no homesteading or grandfathering.  You pay DC taxes, you're entitled to all the good and all the slop DC has to offer whether it comes from newbies or old timers.[/quote]

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