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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nope. The city will take anything it can get. Bowser is desperate to please developers who are leaving in droves and refusing tax breaks because DC has become a crime ridden corrupt dysfunctional dystopia. Handing over public land for a dime is just one of many tactics that won’t work. And it’s crazy naive of clergy and ANC commissioners to Greenlight any of it. Bowser needs to dig out of her own hole some other way. [/quote]

The clergy are YIYBYs - "yes, in your back yard" advocates.  They would have more credibility if their respective religious institutions were developing affordable housing on their own sites.  [/quote]

You sure a community wouldn't move to block that too?  Because [url=https://dcmud.blogspot.com/2007/10/catholic-charities-will-break-ground-in.html]its happened[/url], lol.

To wit:

[quote]Since the groundbreaking is supposed to happen sometime this month, I thought it appropriate to post a couple of things about this project, "for the record." First, as one of the many people in opposition to this project, I tried to be reasonable with Fr Kelley et al in terms of mixing market rate apartments with affordable ones. They wouldn't hear of it, and were utterly intractable on the subject. Second, I was never uncivil during the process. Although I disagreed with many of their so-called facts and tired of their blatant mendacity, I don't think calling someone's bluff is being uncivil. Third, and last, those who say this project will not affect the high prices that homes in Eckington are fetching would do well to see that several luxury condo buildings are selling so poorly that the owners have decided to put them up for auction. I have every confidence that naysayers such as myself will ultimately be vindicated. - Stephen White[/quote]

I have lived there for over a decade.  My home's value has nearly quadrupled.  The tenants of that building were nothing but kind.  Many of them were involved in the community.  The neighborhood has thrived, and will do even better now that the McMillian Plan block has fallen and the city is discussing a deck over for N. Capitol street.

For shame, Stephen White.[/quote]

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