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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Half the city though is not livable because of high crime and terrible schools.  It's easy to state things aren't expensive when you are looking across all values when half the properties included are in very high crime areas. No one wants to raise their family in an area where you have to risk life and death just to save on a mortgage. [/quote]

Racist much? [/quote]

Worthless without telling us where YOU live and your HHI.

It’s easy for the Bethesda and Upper Ward 3 crowd to call folks racist.[/quote]
Until DC fully gentrifies (aka get rid of the low income poc East of the anacostia), DC will never meet its full potential. There’s so many good houses and neighborhoods with potential. Time for Mayor Bowser to raise the property taxes on ward 7 and 8.

I can’t wait until that issue is resolved. I’d like to buy at least two homes there. [/quote]
You want to wait until prices increase to buy? You’re not smart. And also racist.[/quote]

We’re not racist. The policies that the housing market is run by is racist. POC neighborhoods don’t appreciate in value like white neighborhoods do. Even decently maintained black neighborhoods don’t. Just look at PG County for example. Don’t blame the buyers, blame the industry for sticking with outdated guidelines like redlining. [/quote]

This is utter nonsense.

If you bought a house 15 years ago in Brookland or Petworth or Eckington or along H Street or any number of other historically black neighborhoods, the value of your home would have grown several times as fast as if you had bought in Tenleytown.

PG County prices are low because white people (like those pushing to change zoning laws) are afraid of being in predominantly black neighborhoods and won't move there (that is, until someone else gentrifies it for them -- by which time they'll then complain PG county is too expensive). [/quote]

I bought in Petworth more than a decade ago, lived there for nine years, sold my house and bought in Ward 3, and now that I'm here, I, also, think home prices in Tenleytown are too expensive and the city should do something to make it way easier for people with less money than I have to move here. No one is pushing to change zoning in places like Petworth, which is already zoned for more density than Tenleytown is; your apparent belief that self-interest by single young white men is the only reason anyone wants to upzone Tenleytown is wrong. Why would a single person in their 20s want to live in Tenleytown? The idea is to make it more affordable for families.[/quote]

Increasing density is anti-family. People with kids don't want to live in friggin' condos. Condos are for people who don't have children. [/quote]

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