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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First off, [b]if you bought a place in Columbia Heights in 2020, you aren't exactly on the leading edge of gentrification.[/b] But more importantly, you're right. What do your friends say when you make these points to them? [/quote]1) This is sooooo true. 2) I bought a house in a poor neighborhood because it's what we could afford. Even so, as a white person, I knew that my moving in would be - in a small way - a step towards gentrification. But I also knew that if I didn't buy that house, someone else would - and that person would probably be a white gentrifier. It's not like you *not* buying the house would keep it from going to another gentrifier. 3) Given what's going on in this city, I don't know how you can buy anywhere without being part of gentrification, unless, as you noted, OP you move into a rich white area.[/quote]
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