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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC NEEDS gentrification.

There, I said it. [/quote]

Umm...okay.

DC has had gentrification for 25+ years. A lot of wealthy mostly white people moved in and subsequently pushed a lot of lower-income mostly black and brown people out of neighborhoods across the city.

DC doesn't NEED gentrification. DC NEEDS new leadership.[/quote]

DP...  it needs both.  And as for people being displaced, change happens.  For hundreds of thousands of years humans have known that when they can't find a place to live and a way to sustain themselves, they needed to move on.[/quote]

On the one hand we bemoan supermarket deserts and on the other hand we bemoan gentrification. A middle class brings supermarkets, safety, invested parents in schools and all the things people "want". That's why the DC government basically schleps as many low SES students and families to higher SES schools and neighborhoods as they can, rather than focus on improving services in ALL neighborhoods. If they wanted to they could put police sub stations in supermarkets or double down on investment in schools, but instead they rely on gentrification for the little help it can offer. [/quote]

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