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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?[/quote]

Gentrification causes people to lack homes. [/quote]

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job. [/quote]

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt[/quote]

Then get a second or third job or whatever it takes and also develop some skills so that people will pay you enough to make it.  Whatever it takes.  [/quote]

You don't even need a second or third job.

$1,400/mo is 47% of gross income for someone making minimum wage in DC. It's a high percentage but it's also a percentage that basically every nonprofit/academic/local government worker spent when they started out their career, myself included.  If a program assistant at Greenpeace can make it work while going out to the Front Page three times a week "gentrified" people can too.[/quote]

The program assistant at Green Peace has a trust fund + their parents pay their rent. How is this news to you?[/quote]

Not true, but the program assistant at Greenpeace might well have roommates. [/quote]

It’s true in my experience.[/quote]

Your experience is limited. I'm a nonprofit type and our young people live with roommates or in studios or with roommates/in studios in distant suburbs. No one I know has a trust fund. They are hard core about saving money on transit and meals, etc.

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