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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let's say people move for two reasons -- because they have to or because they want to.

Some poor folks in DC might like living here because they [b]have friends and family here[/b] and will only leave if they have to -- because rents go up and they can't afford  to stay in the neighborhood.

Or some might want to move because they get a better job out of town or have other family they want to live near  -- you know, just like non-poor people.[/quote]

What kind of community of friends and family is it, when they don't help out?

Why stay when one could move out, find a good job and good living, and then have the luxury and money to come back to visit any time?  Or better yet, come back and help your friends and family find a way out as well?  Why is it we end up with so many immigrants from south of the border?  Its because they figured out that they could come to America, escape the poverty in Mexico, Guatemala, et cetera and have a better quality of life - and also form a mechanism by which they can also help their friends and family also escape that poverty.  Yet Americans can't seem to figure that out as well.

Difference is in a lack of motivation, poor Americans don't want escape from poverty and success in America anywhere nearly as much as others do.[/quote]

Who are you to say that they don't help out -- they may watch the kids while mom is working or take the kids in when Mom goes to jail.  Help comes in different ways, depending on your station in life.

Sorry, but you seem very eager to ship poor people out of DC.  Maybe they don't want a better job that allows them to come back and visit -- maybe they prefer to live here.  Ok with you?  Lots of non-poor people turn down or don't seek higher paying jobs so they can stay near family, or leave a good job to take one that pays less so they can move closer to family.

Face it -- you just want to get them out of town, so are finding all kinds of reasons why they should leave, if only they were as industrious as you think they should be[/quote]

You're arguing with two different people. Also, you've completely sidestepped my observation that a) gentrification involves very little displacement--in fact there may be a negative correlation. The "shrinking" number of poor in DC is actually a function of population growth and the fact that there are now options for the poor other than "penned up in a ghetto".

I might ask you why you seem so heavily invested in inflating the percentage of poor people in DC.  As middle class population growth continues, obviously the poor will fall as a total share of population. You seem to be mistaking this for displacement.

What's the answer? Write laws to import three homeless people from Baltimore for every middle class couple who decide to move into DC?[/quote]

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