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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is anti-gentrification and anti-police presence sentiment. I agree we should send social workers to help drug addicts, instead of police, but really we are getting soft in so many ways. The push toward amorphous equity goals and shoving in affordable housing wherever we can only fosters crime.

Seriously. It sucks to hear it.

The most recent comprehensive plan was contentious and finally hashed out, after a bunch of religious affordable housing advocates and others protested the lack of extreme low income housing (less than 30% ami) being included in the plan. So now, places like Reservation 13 can expect to have a ton of subsidized housing, which only grandfathers in poverty. That whole area is going to be all affordable housing. You will see multiple generations of people living in the same subsidized housing and it’ll be another Potomac Gardens situation where there is a ton of crime surrounding a project.

We need to stop seeing people as being “displaced” if they can afford the rent. Let a city gentrify. Let it get better. If people can’t afford it let them move to places they can. When you keep poverty stricken people housed in perpetuity their offspring commit crimes. I know everyone likes to root for the underdog and all that, but seriously if you didn’t build projects or let the market work as it should dc would get a ton safer. But then certain council members would lose their constituents and blah blah. So this will repeat ad infinitum as another poster noted. Everyone is so obsessed with housing poor people who are the cause of crime.[/quote]

You hit the nail on the head with this, and couldn't agree more. There are so many subsidized loans in place to allow people to buy homes with incredibly low down payments. We should be ok with people moving to a far outer suburb because it means they can buy and maintain a small beautiful home, but instead we build inner city housing projects and give people section 8 vouchers. The housing projects turn into dumps because no one can afford to maintain them properly, and residents aren't incentivized to take care of anything.[/quote]

+1 to both these posts. It’s a tough cycle but it’s the only way. [/quote]

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