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DC wasn't "segregated" - it was overwhelmingly majority AA and AA run. Gentrification didn't cause the problems - they were already there. Whites suddenly became a convenient excuse and scapegoat for decades of pre-existing problems. [i]

Did you move to DC yesterday? Ugh. I don't quite grasp why folks believe that this problem is the fault of the AA middle class abandoning the city.  This is a city/community problem. [b] If you don't want to buy into the city's history (both AA and white middle class left the city), then don't live here.[/b]

I live near the proposed site for Ward 3 and don't like the real estate version of bait and switch of the shelter (developer and the administration collude to circumvent current zoning laws).  The city should build an appropriately sized shelter on the site, not as a giveaway for a developer unable to build luxury condos on the site as now zoned, but will do so in ten years when the lease expires. [/quote]

That's a legitimate gripe and it calls the program into question.  But I don't see how that has anything to do with the specious notion that we should be blaming middle class families moving into the city for all of its ills.  The problem has more to do with greedy developers than it does with middle class families.[/quote]

Different poster here, let me say that some folks on DCUM seem to have a very selective view of "the city's history."

What some vilify as "gentrification" is little other than going back to long-term normal--after a period of abnormal violence and poverty rates.

Example: Percentage of blacks as % of the city population...

1870	  33.00%
1880	  33.60%
1890	  32.80%
1900	  31.10%
1910	  28.50%
1920	  25.10%
1930	  27.10%
1940	  28.20%
1950	  35.00%
1960	  53.90%
1970	  71.10%
1980	  70.30%
1990	  65.80%
2000	  60.00%
2010	  50.70%
2014	  49.00%
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