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How do you think those neighborhoods got to be like they are now? Developers have been doing that all over the place. (And yes, Trinidad and Brentwood are definitely poorer than AU Park.)[/quote]

"Poorer than AU Park" is not usually what people mean, when they talk about "poor neighborhoods."

Anyway, I don't understand the argument here. Developers are voluntarily developing in poor neighborhoods (defined as: poorer than AU Park), and so therefore additional housing in AU Park shouldn't be allowed?[/quote]

No, more housing in AU Park SHOULD be allowed. One PP has been suggesting that developers are not doing anything elsewhere in the city and that the push to upzone Ward 3 is just a stalking horse for developers' desires to build there. In reality, developers have already been building all over the city, and [b]one advantage of encouraging building in AU Park is that at least it doesn't entail any of the concerns about gentrification[/b].[/quote]

The idea that we shouldn’t invest in or build in communities outside of Ward 3 for fear of gentrification can do genuine, lasting harm to those communities. Abandoning communities or leaving them to stagnate because lower income black people live in them actually hurts - not helps - the cause of social justice. [/quote]

No one here said we shouldn't invest or build in communities outside of Ward 3, or abandon them. But we also shouldn't just push all new development into those communities, especially without any advance consideration to the results of doing that, in the name of "improving" them. Nor should we resist building different kinds of housing, and more affordable housing, in already wealthy predominantly white neighborhoods because residents of those neighborhoods think that housing would be better put somewhere else.[/quote]

Other Wards of the City have been underdeveloped for decades.  That is where development should take place.

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