Anonymous
Post 02/22/2023 08:49     Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Protesting against affordable housing in Bethesda so it can continue to be placed only in Wheaton, Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, and Germantown.


Doesn't DC have mandates on new development that some percentage of new units be affordable?
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 23:02     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
We need rehabilitation tax credits to encourage rehabbing not tearing down. We also need real estate tax increase caps, like the tax due (not tax rate or tax base) can only increase X amount per year.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 22:51     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:We all want the good sides of gentrification (jobs, safety, education, etc) but feel for the displaced in the process.

I didn't do anything today. But I am prepared to sell at a lower price to a family rather to a developer. I am (secretly) prepared to sell to a family that will increase the ethnic diversity of my neighborhood. I am prepared to vote for people who pay attention to that sort of thing - but I can't any, honestly. All local officials seem to focus on either woke or anti-woke values, and when in office, they're just keeping the status quo to go on to higher things.


It is illegal to choose a buyer for your home based on their race. There is no way you'd know their race unless you asked, when the offer letter came in, and if your realtor is smart, they wouldn't tell you.

"Is the buyer of my home going to be Black?" you are not allowed to do that.


You can sell your home to whomever you please. Especially if you’re selling below market rate, you just find a buyer before listing.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 22:51     Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Protesting against affordable housing in Bethesda so it can continue to be placed only in Wheaton, Silver Spring, Gaithersburg, and Germantown.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 22:42     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:We all want the good sides of gentrification (jobs, safety, education, etc) but feel for the displaced in the process.

I didn't do anything today. But I am prepared to sell at a lower price to a family rather to a developer. I am (secretly) prepared to sell to a family that will increase the ethnic diversity of my neighborhood. I am prepared to vote for people who pay attention to that sort of thing - but I can't any, honestly. All local officials seem to focus on either woke or anti-woke values, and when in office, they're just keeping the status quo to go on to higher things.


I thought ‘Gentrification’ means the neighborhoods changing from majority Black to less black but more white. Increasing ethnic diversity in a historic black neighborhood means increasing white, Asian, and Hispanic. Fair Housing Act prohibits a seller rejects/picks a buyer based on their race, gender and etc.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 18:25     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Nothing. I’m one of the poors and bought a shitty place in LA and now it’s a hip neighbourhood. I’m so excited for less gang shootings and more Starbucks and hipster shops. F all of you who think everything needs to stay the same.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 18:11     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:Gentrifiers are better than slum lords, they are not there to take away, they are in a way investing in homes, lives and neighborhoods. There is no need to pitch locals and newcomers against each other, they should be encouraged to work together as both have same objectives, having safe and pleasant neighborhoods where people can focus on their individual struggles and triumphs.


I look at places like the Wharf and the reality is that it created far more jobs of all types than were on those pieces of land before development, it also for example created 98 affordable ($533/month) apartments for people at 30% income level when there weren't that many prior on that land prior to development. https://www.wharfdc.com/building-our-community/providing-affordable-and-workforce-housing/
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 17:24     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
The OP is a monstah
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 17:06     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
People should be free to buy and sell their properties. Even Adam and Eve had to move. Its not like people stay in same homes for 500 years. Humans are mortals, home are transitionary shelters.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 17:03     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Gentrifiers are better than slum lords, they are not there to take away, they are in a way investing in homes, lives and neighborhoods. There is no need to pitch locals and newcomers against each other, they should be encouraged to work together as both have same objectives, having safe and pleasant neighborhoods where people can focus on their individual struggles and triumphs.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 16:57     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
I think mental health is the most important factor for people to get out of the destructive cycles of poverty, crime, alcohol, drugs and indifference. Once they start valuing themselves and respect others, their paths start clearing up. This is basic and universal for humans, race, religion, finances, culture etc doesn't matter.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 16:25     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
What's the solution? Let neighborhoods deteriorate into slums so people who want to move have no option but to abandon them?

What can be done is helping people get healthcare, education, motivation and skills to try to change their own lives.

Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 13:17     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:We all want the good sides of gentrification (jobs, safety, education, etc) but feel for the displaced in the process.

I didn't do anything today. But I am prepared to sell at a lower price to a family rather to a developer. I am (secretly) prepared to sell to a family that will increase the ethnic diversity of my neighborhood. I am prepared to vote for people who pay attention to that sort of thing - but I can't any, honestly. All local officials seem to focus on either woke or anti-woke values, and when in office, they're just keeping the status quo to go on to higher things.


It is illegal to choose a buyer for your home based on their race. There is no way you'd know their race unless you asked, when the offer letter came in, and if your realtor is smart, they wouldn't tell you.

"Is the buyer of my home going to be Black?" you are not allowed to do that.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 13:17     Subject: What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Live like President Carter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/


DCUM would say that someone who moves back to their hometown is provincial, lazy, parochial, sheltered or some other insult regardless of their reasoning or income level.


Certainly true of Carter.
Anonymous
Post 02/21/2023 13:16     Subject: Re:What are you doing to play a part in preventing gentrification?
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?


Gentrification causes people to lack homes.


boo hoo


Wow. What a shocking level of callousness toward unhoused people. Those same people who you call the cops on simply for existing!


unhoused people? Homeless? They are not part of the gentrification impact. No significant number of people lose their home to gentrification and go homeless.

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Some people become temporarily homeless, but usually get by via couch surfing or whatever else until they can get into another apartment.

But numerous studies and reports show that 70-80% of the chronically homeless - many of the ones living in tents etc are homeless due to serious mental health issues and/or substance abuse issues. That's a totally different issue, and putting a roof over their heads has to also come with treatment and supervision.