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I own two SFHs in CCDC close to Connecticut [b] I don't think the government should have any role in helping poor or working class people become my literal next-door neighbors because unfair.[/b]

Thinking more about what I want next door in CCDC, I [b]really[/b] don't believe the Bowser administration should snowplow the way for Patrick the Potomac-based Developer to make bank from his stupid "farmhouse" 4-plexes that list for $2m per unit.

Why am I bankrolling Patrick's club membership after he blocked all the light that used to shine in my windows?  Patrick's shady LLC killed all the mature trees on his lot, along with one mature street tree and another big tree on our lot line.

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I guess you don't know anything about redlining, GI Bill and other programs that paved the way for people who chartered AU Park and CCDC to be white enclaves of single family homes. The Federal Government literally bulldozed black homes in Ft Reno to make way for what we have now.

Irony is just dead.[/quote]

PP here.  I know plenty about redlining and specifically about the activities of Francis Newlands 130 years ago in developing Chevy Chase, including racial and religious covenants in the deeds.  I don't support reparations in the form of subsidized housing that will lower the value of my assets.  That would be a taking, without compensation.  As you should know, the feds paid the unwilling black and white property owners of Ft. Reno for their homes.

If Bowser proposes to compensate me for the diminution in value of my property associated with a poor house next door, I might be amenable.  Of course, that won't happen.  
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