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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is because of the vouchers on Connecticut Avenue. It’s natural that if you import problems, you get problems. This is why that project with converting the Chevy Chase Community Center into housing is not a good one.
The same investment could be made in low-income wards and uplift those communities with higher security, better schools, improved housing, etc. But those areas are left to continue deteriorating and, instead, children are bused into NW DC schools, vouchers are handed out, etc. The Target on Tenleytown no longer admits youths without adult supervision, there have been shoot outs in Conn Ave apartment buildings with vouchers, crime is on the rise in that corridor….including a rape on Woodley Park/Cleveland Park just a few weeks ago? Is DC so blind to see all this?[/quote]

Compare the map location of violent crimes in Ward 3 with the buildings where there are concentrations of vouchers.  The overlap is striking.

If Bowser promised to spread “crime for all”, then “mission accomplished, mayor!”[/quote]

Of course, we can’t have any nice things or nice neighborhoods, we need them to be equitable. [/quote]

Lots of people— including some who post here — don’t want things to be “nice” and equitable.  So not-nice and equitable is a not surprising result.  How many of you complaining about the spread of violent crime have done anything —anything at all— to ensure that under-resourced neighborhoods get better resources. Even when it comes to public resources, the privileged neighborhoods and schools seem eager to maintain their privileges.  So we can have nice things. The “trick” is that everyone gets access to nice things and nice neighborhoods — particularly when it comes to public services and resources. [/quote]

“ The “trick” is that everyone gets access to nice things and nice neighborhoods — particularly when it comes to public services and resources.”
In real life and being practical, this doesn’t work with straightforward imports of new neighbors with vouchers. The reason is that the difference is beyond economical but also behavioral. In the name of equity, you ask people to accept influx of new neighbors where the core integration goes beyond housing and places things like increased violence, etc. as part of the mix.
It’s rough and sad, but truly the best intervention is in the originating neighborhoods themselves so those are improved. The access to “nice things and neighborhoods” should happen as real transformation takes place. The current approach has a lofty aspiration, but doesn’t stand up in execution.
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