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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.

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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Anonymous wrote:You can play a role today. Did you protest today? Did you donate to a mutual aid organization?

Not sure I get what you are talking about. There is no downside to gentrification. Everyone should be 100% behind it.

I've never once in my life, in any of the places I've lived, been given a guarantee that my cost of living would never go up. Not once. I've had to move because it got too expensive. I've had to move because of layoffs and ending up getting a job in another city. Such is life. I'm not sure where the mentality comes from that there should be some kind of guarantees made to certain classes of people when the rest of us have no such guarantees extended to us.

Anonymous wrote:What people are doing for themselves?

Not a damn thing. And they never will. It's just the way they are.

Neighborhood folks can come together for cleanup and against crime.

What people are doing for themselves?

Nobody shed a tear or lifted a protest sign when I got "gentrified" out of the upper NW neighborhood I grew up in.

Would I love to live in Tenleytown again? Of course I would, but I can't afford it so I live where I can afford. Did me moving into my current neighborhood exacerbate gentrification? Probably, but...what exactly do you expect me to do? I've got to live somewhere.

I buy properties and continue to rent them out, sometimes to the same tenants who were there when I bought them, instead of flipping them and/or turning them into AirBnBs.

Anonymous wrote:Which rich person is moving to poor neighborhoods? Trump? Buffet? Obama? Musk? Bush? Oprah?

Significant gentrification happened in Harlem after Bill Clinton put his office there post Presidency.

Anonymous wrote:DC, like many other cities, is weird in that they have developers catering to the richer people, and city subsidized housing and other programs for the poorest, but not much in between. They seem to forget entirely about people who work in the city but who are on the lower end of the pay scale, many of whom end up having to commute into the city because they can't afford to live in the city. There's the displaced, but there's also the never-could-have-been-placed who are in the city for their jobs, but can't afford to live here.

They haven’t forgotten about you. They don’t want you. They don’t want middle class families with kids because they demand things and have the political power to extract them and those things cost money.

The city set out on a very specific economic development strategy to cater to the wealthy and childless with disposable income who require little to nothing in services except public safety and unfortunately the city doesn’t seem capable of even doing that anymore.

DC lacks a middle class because it lacks good, safe schools. That’s why black residents move to PG and Charles County. Gentrification? There were plenty of homes available during the reign of Marion Barry but nobody wanted them. Barry is singularly responsible for the exodus from DC particularly of black residents. Yet, the council places a statue of him in front of the Wilson Bldg.

Go figure.

DC, like many other cities, is weird in that they have developers catering to the richer people, and city subsidized housing and other programs for the poorest, but not much in between. They seem to forget entirely about people who work in the city but who are on the lower end of the pay scale, many of whom end up having to commute into the city because they can't afford to live in the city. There's the displaced, but there's also the never-could-have-been-placed who are in the city for their jobs, but can't afford to live here.

Anonymous wrote:I like how most people dance around the main issue of this topic.

“What are you doing to take ownership of black neighborhoods, without trying to totally displace them to Calvert County or Laurel? And how can I, as a white person, get up on this wealth opportunity?”

Apart from developers, most people don't care whether it's a white or black neighborhood, and don't care about any "wealth opportunities" - they just care that they can find a place to live that's convenient to where they work, is safe and livable, and has decent schools and amenities nearby. That's it. That applies regardless of whether you're white or black or whatever else. The only real gap is the social stratification factor, and whether people making less money can be part of that through homes that are affordable to them.

I like how most people dance around the main issue of this topic.

“What are you doing to take ownership of black neighborhoods, without trying to totally displace them to Calvert County or Laurel? And how can I, as a white person, get up on this wealth opportunity?”

Sadly "gentrification" at this point is as much its own dog whistle, of "eek, wypipo!"