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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I drove to DC today and it was a ghost town with mostly homeless people, tents, and the smell of weed stinking the air. It's definitely different than 2 years a go. [/quote]

Newsflash:  it’s December 23.  DC is always empty around Christmas.  Obviously you don’t live here.  [/quote]

Newsflash:   I am a PA at a K St medical office.  We never closed and the K St area has been deserted for months. Most of the lunch places have closed
The homeless encampments are inching toward our office from Washington Circle.  I live near the Cathedral
 and the residential areas haven’t changed much, but the commercial areas look like a Sunday afternoon in August.

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Your poor thing.  Watch out or the homeless will get you![/quote]

More or less the definition of whistling past the graveyard.

People have legitimate concerns about the direction of the city but you would rather bury your head in the sand.

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You don’t live here for one.

For two, “concerns” my ass.  Lots of poster are inexplicably getting off on DC hitting a rough patch.

Finally, we’re still in the middle of the pandemic.  As I said before, check back in a couple years.  Things will get better.   [/quote]
Is this Jeff posting anonymously?

Otherwise how would PP know where someone lives? Also repeats statement from Jeff’s post about “a couple years” prefaced with “as I said before”.

Hmmm.

In any case, whoever and whatever one’s beliefs need to content with that actual data. DC population growth peaked in 2013 and has been declining since, going negative the last two years. Overall, US population growth has also declined. In order for DC to “bounce back”, it’s going to need to attract more domestic in-migration at a time when domestic migration to DC had declined for 9 years and has gone negative the last two. This is not my belief or hunch or hope, it’s just facts and data which, the Washington Post also helpfully provides. 
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Now for my best estimate of trends, best case is that DC population stabilizes at current 670k for the indefinite future. More likely is that DC population will probably continue to shrink over the next 3-5 years back down to 600k and stabilize there. Worst case is not a disastrous outcomes, but both outcomes do present significant issues that DC will need to grapple with, particularly from a fiscal policy perspective if revenues will not be increasing and will more likely shrink over the medium term. [/quote]

As long as the real estate market holds up, losing population maybe a good thing.  Less cars, less people, and less carbon release.
If the real estate market gives up one day, more affordable housing will be available for DC government  to take care the poor.  [/quote]

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