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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In some DC neighborhoods, they're at a point where gentrification is desperately needed.  The homes need to be gutted and redone or they won't be habitable.  It's been a long time with no maintenance and they need everything.  If those neighborhoods don't gentrify they'll end up like the abandoned homes in Detroit--boarded up and empty.  The "original" habitants just don't have the money to do the needed work.  Gentrifiers are able to pay for the work to be done. It's part of the lifecycle of a neighborhood.[/quote]

Hold on a second. What you're talking about there isn't gentrification that makes a neighborhood safe and attractive - it's displacement. The most dramatic example I can think of is the development in Southwest/Waterfront. It seems most of that place has been razed.  For a local history lesson, watch the 2007 documentary about gentrification of DC - Chocolate City - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1NkfATQvj4[/quote]

PP. Sharing videos from learning about DC tonight:
https://arthurcapper.omeka.net/   
Welcome to the website of the Arthur Capper Public Housing Oral History Project. The Arthur Capper and the Carrollsburg public housing projects were collectively known to their residents as "Cappers." They housed 707 households until the HOPE VI program demolished the buildings, replacing them with a mixed-income development. This website presents the oral histories and memorabilia of those who lived in Cappers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asvZjiaxIdE  = Greenleaf Gardens Public Housing Community: Past, Present, and Future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG9_VgYM-tw  = Interview remembering Arthur Capper Public Housing Oral History Project in the past. Footman Final Portrait
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFgFZBiPRHM  = lecture "Gentrification in DC"
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