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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The largest public housing unit is on Capitol Hill (Potomac Gardens). The neighborhood blocks will never have the baby boom on what a housing project can produce.  DCPS knows this and that's why the SES residents don't even come up as a blip on Kaya ' s radar.  Why hell every superintendent/Chancellor has ignored that 10 block radius pretty regularly.[/quote]

This will likely be torn down soon like all of the other concentrated public housing buildings. Talks about relocating these residents into mixed-income housing (to improve the residents' lifestyles admist the crime around their homes) have been going on for years.

I've heard rumblings. The question is not if but when.[/quote]

It would make more sense to relocate public housing in SW (Syphax, Greenleaf, Carroll) given all of the development on the Waterfront and Navy Yard, but ironically there seems to be a lack of foresight and planning and the Housing Authority has apparently recently made capital improvements on those units rather than seizing the opportunity to tap into other ongoing development projects as opportunities to de-concentrate and de-segregate those low-SES pockets, which are rapidly becoming more and more out-of-place.[/quote]

When the city convened planning and stakeholder input meetings this spring/summer for the SW Neighborhood plan, SW residents were strongly opposed to removing the public housing. They wanted low income residents to be able to remain in place throughout development in the neighborhood and valued the economic diversity of the quadrant.[/quote]

That's a misguided generality and they obviously didn't connect with many other SW residents.  My guess is that they only asked the folks who were currently residing in the housing projects.[/quote]

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