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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s an interesting link to 25 new developments coming on line now or shortly, most in DC.  The development lobby that has effectively captured the mayor’s office claims that DC needs to upzone to build many more of these, especially west of Rock Creek Park.  So much for  “affordable housing.”

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/a-virtual-tour-of-more-than-25-dc-area-developments/16643
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Who decided that gentrification should now be known as "upzoning"? Seems like a transparent attempt at re-branding gentrification. [/quote]

No.  There’s a difference.  “Upzoning” is when less dense allowable zoning is replaced by zoning that permits taller and denser buildings.  There is a DC bureaucratic term called “upFLUMming” in which changes that contemplate denser and taller uses as made to the Future Land Use Map.  Upzoning and upFLUMming can create economic incentives for gentrification, of course.  But they are not the same thing.[/quote]

I think the term "upzoning" was invented to make gentrification easier to sell, and also to make white liberals feel better about kicking poor black people out of the city. [/quote]

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