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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd agree with up zoning, but only if they build luxury condos and apartments.  We need to drive as much poverty out of the city as we can in order to make it better and not do things that will import more of it. Silver Spring, for example, could get rid of so much crime if it had a baseline for rent well over $2000+ per month. Kinda hard for gang members and other trash to destroy an area if they can't afford to move there in.thenfiret place. [/quote]

Well congratulations, poster who should have noted sarcasm but didn't to set up a strawman!

The kind of development likely to be built won't be attainable by those who can't pay $2k/mo, and won't be supporting true altruism toward those with low incomes.  However, it sure will bring additional residents without providing the infrastructure to support them, and, unfortunately, that under-servicing will tend to drive existing residents with higher means, modestly or otherwise, disproportionately out (and disproportionately keep those with such means from deciding to move in).  So, not really poverty, but definitely not improvement.[/quote]

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