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.

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The act is shocking, the comments are something else too.

What is a YT person? Some of the comments use that phrase.

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The act is shocking, the comments are something else too.

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Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

Oh come on. This isn't about "preventing gentrification." And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.

On the contrary, it is about gentrification in every way. The teens who brick are 1) claiming "their" space and 2) expressing the "rage" being stoked by extremely irresponsible people who feed them inflammatory lines about how gentrifiers are invading "their" turf. Braining white people with bricks is literally their reaction to gentrification, and too many adults who should know better tell them they're justified if they want to kill or permanently disable their neighbors.

I don't know that they're thinking far enough ahead to realize there could eventually be backlash. They're mostly thinking nothing will happen to them even if they get caught.

Why is this not prosecuted as a hate crime?

Because their brains are not fully developed until 25, which is the same reason why they won't be prosecuted for assault. I think one article about this even had the spouse of the victim virtue signaling about how society and discrimination caused the perp to brutalize her husband.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job.

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt

Then get a second or third job or whatever it takes and also develop some skills so that people will pay you enough to make it. Whatever it takes.

You don't even need a second or third job.

$1,400/mo is 47% of gross income for someone making minimum wage in DC. It's a high percentage but it's also a percentage that basically every nonprofit/academic/local government worker spent when they started out their career, myself included. If a program assistant at Greenpeace can make it work while going out to the Front Page three times a week "gentrified" people can too.

The program assistant at Green Peace has a trust fund + their parents pay their rent. How is this news to you?

Immigrants make it work all day long but they live with large numbers in an apartment. They will be owning real estate in 10 - 15 years
while others get left behind.

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Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

Oh come on. This isn't about "preventing gentrification." And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.

On the contrary, it is about gentrification in every way. The teens who brick are 1) claiming "their" space and 2) expressing the "rage" being stoked by extremely irresponsible people who feed them inflammatory lines about how gentrifiers are invading "their" turf. Braining white people with bricks is literally their reaction to gentrification, and too many adults who should know better tell them they're justified if they want to kill or permanently disable their neighbors.

I don't know that they're thinking far enough ahead to realize there could eventually be backlash. They're mostly thinking nothing will happen to them even if they get caught.

Why is this not prosecuted as a hate crime?

It is barely prosecuted at all. That's our problem here in DC.

My investment advisor was bricked while walking with his wife on a week day around 1:30 in the afternoon. He was a couple of blocks from St Patrick's Cathedral in a good neighborhood. He was bricked so hard he thought something had fallen from the top of the building and he was seriously injured. He and his wife managed to walk a couple of blocks to where a cop was walking and managed to get the 'bricker" arrested. The "bricker was released in about 5 hours. Believe me, you don't want to be bricked.

My investment advisor was going to buy property in NYC but now he is not going to. He and his wife also avoid going to NYC now.

NYC isn’t “gentrifying” especially in that area. That’s an unfortunate incident but not really sure how it’s related to gentrification. Increase in crime and lawlessness in cities though, sure

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job.

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt

Then get a second or third job or whatever it takes and also develop some skills so that people will pay you enough to make it. Whatever it takes.

That’s great that you feel that way, but a lot of people can’t/won’t/don’t do that, so unless you want a bunch of unhoused people on the sidewalks of your neighborhood, I hope you support a public option for housing (just like there is a public option for k-12 schools) and shelters + rehabs in your neighborhood.

People make terrible decisions. Having babies they can’t afford with men who are broke is the biggest mistake. No one is entitled to live in DC or any expensive area. Move to a cheaper place.

Educate yourself, PP

Seriously. Studies have shown that working class women do better if they have their babies earlier because it doesn't impede career progress in the way taking a break for a baby does.

Sadly, I don't think working class women have the luxury of "taking a break for a baby."

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job.

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt

Then get a second or third job or whatever it takes and also develop some skills so that people will pay you enough to make it. Whatever it takes.

That’s great that you feel that way, but a lot of people can’t/won’t/don’t do that, so unless you want a bunch of unhoused people on the sidewalks of your neighborhood, I hope you support a public option for housing (just like there is a public option for k-12 schools) and shelters + rehabs in your neighborhood.

People make terrible decisions. Having babies they can’t afford with men who are broke is the biggest mistake. No one is entitled to live in DC or any expensive area. Move to a cheaper place.

Educate yourself, PP

Seriously. Studies have shown that working class women do better if they have their babies earlier because it doesn't impede career progress in the way taking a break for a baby does.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job.

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt

Then get a second or third job or whatever it takes and also develop some skills so that people will pay you enough to make it. Whatever it takes.

That’s great that you feel that way, but a lot of people can’t/won’t/don’t do that, so unless you want a bunch of unhoused people on the sidewalks of your neighborhood, I hope you support a public option for housing (just like there is a public option for k-12 schools) and shelters + rehabs in your neighborhood.

People make terrible decisions. Having babies they can’t afford with men who are broke is the biggest mistake. No one is entitled to live in DC or any expensive area. Move to a cheaper place.

Educate yourself, PP

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Anonymous wrote:Bricking people

Sadly, some seriously nihilistic teens are indeed doing this to prevent gentrification. It is terrible that they have so much public sympathy rather than 1) their victims and 2) us parents trying very hard to stay in the middle class and hoping to see some return on our modest home investments in this city, or at least not see the neighborhoods we invested in become crapholes.

Oh come on. This isn't about "preventing gentrification." And even if it were, it all the more increases the calls for more policing and efforts to push them out.

On the contrary, it is about gentrification in every way. The teens who brick are 1) claiming "their" space and 2) expressing the "rage" being stoked by extremely irresponsible people who feed them inflammatory lines about how gentrifiers are invading "their" turf. Braining white people with bricks is literally their reaction to gentrification, and too many adults who should know better tell them they're justified if they want to kill or permanently disable their neighbors.

I don't know that they're thinking far enough ahead to realize there could eventually be backlash. They're mostly thinking nothing will happen to them even if they get caught.

Why is this not prosecuted as a hate crime?

It is barely prosecuted at all. That's our problem here in DC.

My investment advisor was bricked while walking with his wife on a week day around 1:30 in the afternoon. He was a couple of blocks from St Patrick's Cathedral in a good neighborhood. He was bricked so hard he thought something had fallen from the top of the building and he was seriously injured. He and his wife managed to walk a couple of blocks to where a cop was walking and managed to get the 'bricker" arrested. The "bricker was released in about 5 hours. Believe me, you don't want to be bricked.

My investment advisor was going to buy property in NYC but now he is not going to. He and his wife also avoid going to NYC now.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive?

Gentrification causes people to lack homes.

Not working causes people to lack homes. Bartenders can live in gentrified neighborhoods, so stop whining and get a job.

Yeah right, just working any job will allow someone to get approved for a $1400/month apt

Then get a second or third job or whatever it takes and also develop some skills so that people will pay you enough to make it. Whatever it takes.

You don't even need a second or third job.

$1,400/mo is 47% of gross income for someone making minimum wage in DC. It's a high percentage but it's also a percentage that basically every nonprofit/academic/local government worker spent when they started out their career, myself included. If a program assistant at Greenpeace can make it work while going out to the Front Page three times a week "gentrified" people can too.

The program assistant at Green Peace has a trust fund + their parents pay their rent. How is this news to you?