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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The truth is that all cities have pockets of cheap housing and pockets of expensive housing.  Traditionally, immigrants and childless young adults, who naturally have a higher risk tolerance, moved into the cheaper areas and began the process of renewal or gentrification.

For instance, U Street/Shaw was a dump in the 80's and 90's until the Ethiopian/Eritrean community and Gen X young adults started moving there because it was cheaper.  H street hipsters.  Logan Circle, Bloomington, Eckington, etc etc was a similar process.

The problem is that this cohort of childless young adults is the most risk averse in history.[/quote]

The problem is that some people, who are doing fine on housing themselves, refuse to acknowledge that there is an actual housing shortage, and instead prefer to blame it on foolish things like "young people these days, amirite?"[/quote]

Is there?  34,000 units have been added in the last 10 years and there are wide swaths of the city and surrounding area with affordable housing.  They're just in places you don't want to live.

Every "cool" neighborhood in the world was once just like those places.  What do you think Williamsburg was like in the 70s and 80s?[/quote]

Yes, there is. On the one hand, there is a ton of data. And then, on the one hand, there is you and your vibes.[/quote]

Vibes is a you thing.  There is available and attainable housing around - it's just in places you are afraid of.[/quote]

The assumption you seem to be making, here, is that everyone having trouble with housing costs is a young and bougie potential gentrifier. A weird assumption.[/quote]

Nope.  Silver Spring versus Bethesda is the same dynamic.

But just you know, everyone that moves anywhere is a gentrifier.  When you strip away the connotation and stick with with the denotation, gentrification is just the process of people moving to a new neighborhood.[/quote]

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