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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Where is your evidence that people started moving back to DC/staying in DC and gentrifying neighborhoods like Brookland, Columbia Heights, H Street near Trinidad, Mount Pleasant, all BEFORE the charter movement got well underway? There is some development that has definitely fueled further development, but even most of the development has followed AFTER gentrification started to really get into swing.

School reform was the true beginning of noticeable gentrification. Show in detail (i.e. what specific neighborhoods did gentrification start in) BEFORE charters got into a real swing?[/quote]

I am not the poster you are asking; I am a brand-new poster to this sub-topic of "prove there was gentrification anyplace before charters existed."  Ok, ready?  I'm relabeling the subject since everyone will have a slightly different definition of 'gentrify.'

"Places that started to attract white, college-educated NEW residents, ages 23 to 35, with high earning potential, where previously there were exclusively residents with lower incomes, lower education attainment, who were typically persons of color.  [b]Post 1968 riots, pre-charter[/b] juggernaut."

Captiol Hill (true Capitol Hill, the historic district, not the random H st / stadium / navy yard stuff)
Mount Pleasant
Dupont Circle
Logan Circle
Adams Morgan
U St, between 18th and 14th.

Shaw is a close call, could put it in either column (pre or post-charter juggernaut).

I have lived here a long time, long enough to have personally been IN Logan when it was whore-and-tattoo land, and when 17th and T was considered dangerous, shitty and an incredibly stupid investment even @ $300,000 for a whole rowhouse.

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