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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is all directly related to schools. If these areas get more and better retail, local homes increase in value and wealthier families move in. And, maybe someday, pretty please, the slumlords that own barcroft apartments and other low income apartments along the central and western pike will sell and someone will bring higher end residences. Please!!!! We need some income diversity along the Pike. [/quote]

I’m sorry, but my home’s value is quite high thank you very much.
Old ( partially renovated) homes in my neighborhood sell for over 800k. 
That’s plenty wealthy. 
It doesn’t matter.
Every SFH in Alcova, Douglas Park, Nauck, etc could be sold for 2 million tomorrow. It wouldn’t matter.
Every single home would have to have multiple children going to elementary school. 
Then, in 4-5 years, it wouldn’t matter. The turn over at Barcroft Apartments is monthly. It’s a revolving door of poverty. 
3000 low income units to 800 single family homes.
There willl never be a good balance in some of these schools.
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I'd be interested to hear some historical perspective on the Barcroft Apartments. It was not always home to a largely Latino immigrant community. I'm not sure if it was always zoned to Randolph, or Barcroft, but I've seen APS stats showing Randolph was only 10% Hispanic in the early 1980s, and 50% white.
Either Barcroft apts was home to a lot of white students who went to Randolph, or it wasn't home to many students at all and the SFH zoned to the school actually attended it (option schools did not yet exist).[/quote]

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