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I fully support gentrification in DC.  It's time to rid this city of the riff raff.

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Serious question: Where is the riff-raff supposed to [i]go[/i]?  If you kick all the poors out of Anacostia, where do you suggest they live instead?[/quote]

Not the person who posted this but I agree with them. I really don't give a damn where people "go" once their neighborhood becomes gentrified. It's not my problem. I don't see the issue here in DC yet but the protests against gentrification in San Francisco REALLY upset me. A guy dared to open a successful restaurant in a gentrifying neighborhood and the useless hippies harassed him until he left. And they said he didn't belong there. If poor people moved into a richer neighborhood and were treated the same way, EVERY civil rights activist in the Western Hemisphere would descend upon that city and there would be protests and hell to pay.

I mean, are we really going to stop real estate values from rising and stop neighborhoods from becoming BETTER? And safer with less crime, and with more amenities, and nicer housing stock, and likely better schools? It's such a friggin' backwards attitude, I can't even stand it. Do people realize they're fighting to make their neighborhoods stay semi-crappy?[/quote]

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