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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Affluent people moving into the city is largely a good thing, it means more tax revenue for the city, it means poor and affluent people are less isolated from each other, in DC and many other places it been accompanied by growth that has been good.

However new people should respect the people who have already lived there, and not have condescending colonial attitudes.

And cities should all enough building of new housing so that all the new residents are not displacing old residents (especially renters, who will not get the benefits of older homeowners selling).    Some policies on affordable housing should be implemented so that the city does not resegregate. [/quote]how are people being displaced ? Dud buildings get knocked down? Dc used to have a population of  800,000 in 1950. Now it has 700,000[/quote]

New person moves in, old person forced out.  No net change in population.  You do realize that for someone to be "displaced" there has to be someone moving in to displace them, right?[/quote]

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