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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m continuing to live in my home in Columbia Heights and not sell it to a developer who would chop it up into overpriced units. I also continue to send my children to public school.

What did YOU do today to prevent gentrification, OP? [/quote]

OP here. Exclusively patronizing very local businesses, sending my children to public school, not calling the cops over a party.[/quote]

NP. How does that prevent gentrification?[b] Isn’t the only correct answer to sell your home back to the POC you displaced for the original price they paid?[/b] Or to another for that low price?

Frequenting local stores is great in preserving any neighborhood, anywhere. [/quote]

This supposes that every neighborhood was ever full of POCs. That just wasn't the case in large sections of DC. And even in some of the sections where that may have been true between 1950 and 1980, it wasn't true before or since. Demographic change happens.

I'm not thrilled that when my neighborhood school boundary changed, the following few years were full of families with older kids moving out and childless doggie "parents" moving in, but demographic change is totally normal. [/quote]

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