Anonymous wrote:The only way this City will prosper economically is to materially reduce the percentage of people living off the government. According to Grok, the government pays for over 40% of the blacks that live in the city versus a little more than 1% of the whites. The 40% the city pays for also is responsible for a disproportionate amount of the daily vicious, and anti-social conduct that you see. If we replaced the group that is unwilling or unable to take care of itself with people who are able to look after themselves, the city would take off. Until then, the City will be held back by this group.

The “blacks”? 🤔

Anonymous wrote:Approximately 45% of the blacks in DC (approx 136,000) lack resources to care for themselves. When you have a large group of people dependent on taxpayers to live, the only thing to do when commercial values fall is to raise taxes.

The “blacks”? 🤔

Ward 4 resident again. And many of the developers who bought houses in my neighborhood did not turn them into condos but did renovate the houses. And often sold them not to rich white families but middle class black families.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, which single family homes were razed? Didn't happen in DC. I call outsider commentary.

do you think all those high end condo buildings were built on farm land? on empty fields?

The whole point of “increasing density” is getting rid of single family homes. That’s why the city is getting so white.

Huh? DC was whiter than it is now for most of its existence.

Yeah, they're not making a lot of sense. White people moving in doesn't particularly relate to the effort towards increased density. Also, given the number of row houses, there hasn't been nearly the propensity towards tearing down single family homes that Montgomery County has seen. Nor the changes in zoning that have been proposed there.

Developers buy single family homes from black people. They knock them down and replace them with expensive condos. They sell them to high income white people. That drives up housing prices and, with it, property taxes. More people are forced to sell their homes because of the property taxes, and the pattern repeats. This is how Ward 4 went from 80 percent black in 1995 to 42 percent black in 2025 and how Ward 5 went from 85 percent black in 1995 to 45 percent black in 2025.

Lost in your "expert" analysis is the fact that these homeowners walk away with tons of cash due to the value of their home. But don't let facts get in the way of your virtue signaling.

Also, kid, nobody forces anyone to sell their home.

Well, property taxes force people to sell all the time. And they would have made a lot more money if they had been able to hold onto their houses and sold later.

I live in Ward 4 and know several people who sold their homes in the past few years. They were older black people, they were excited to leave the city and move somewhere quieter, and they could afford to do that with the price increase they got from selling their house. They didn’t seem to feel exploited or taken advantage of, nor did they want to stay in their house longer.

The left is living their nirvana. It's so well deserved.

Tax me harder, Daddy.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, which single family homes were razed? Didn't happen in DC. I call outsider commentary.

do you think all those high end condo buildings were built on farm land? on empty fields?

The whole point of “increasing density” is getting rid of single family homes. That’s why the city is getting so white.

Huh? DC was whiter than it is now for most of its existence.

Yeah, they're not making a lot of sense. White people moving in doesn't particularly relate to the effort towards increased density. Also, given the number of row houses, there hasn't been nearly the propensity towards tearing down single family homes that Montgomery County has seen. Nor the changes in zoning that have been proposed there.

Developers buy single family homes from black people. They knock them down and replace them with expensive condos. They sell them to high income white people. That drives up housing prices and, with it, property taxes. More people are forced to sell their homes because of the property taxes, and the pattern repeats. This is how Ward 4 went from 80 percent black in 1995 to 42 percent black in 2025 and how Ward 5 went from 85 percent black in 1995 to 45 percent black in 2025.

Lost in your "expert" analysis is the fact that these homeowners walk away with tons of cash due to the value of their home. But don't let facts get in the way of your virtue signaling.

Also, kid, nobody forces anyone to sell their home.

Well, property taxes force people to sell all the time. And they would have made a lot more money if they had been able to hold onto their houses and sold later.

And I would be a billionaire if I had invested in Apple in 1992. So what?

I mean, that's not even kinda, sorta analogous. Maybe just deal with the facts before you instead of coming up with dumb non-analogies. Look, you're free to be 100 percent in favor of gentrification, and you can say you don't care if people who happen to be poorer than you can't afford housing in this city. But then don't complain when you get squeezed out of the housing market too by other people who have more money than you.

Your confidence in your position is only surpassed by your ignorance of market economics.

Please ask the families of the murdered people in 90s DC if a safer, cleaner city is better or worse. Yes, I'm 100% for gentrification, because better things are better. You may enjoy a crime-ridden city with potholes and vacant housing, I do not.

And yes, the analogy makes perfect sense. The poor people you so much care about are, in fact, selling their houses for millions of dollars. Hold on to them and sell later? What are you even talking about? That makes no sense.

Please take your ultra-left-wing nonsense to Bluesky or some other echo chamber, you are embarassing yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, which single family homes were razed? Didn't happen in DC. I call outsider commentary.

do you think all those high end condo buildings were built on farm land? on empty fields?

The whole point of “increasing density” is getting rid of single family homes. That’s why the city is getting so white.

Huh? DC was whiter than it is now for most of its existence.

Yeah, they're not making a lot of sense. White people moving in doesn't particularly relate to the effort towards increased density. Also, given the number of row houses, there hasn't been nearly the propensity towards tearing down single family homes that Montgomery County has seen. Nor the changes in zoning that have been proposed there.

Developers buy single family homes from black people. They knock them down and replace them with expensive condos. They sell them to high income white people. That drives up housing prices and, with it, property taxes. More people are forced to sell their homes because of the property taxes, and the pattern repeats. This is how Ward 4 went from 80 percent black in 1995 to 42 percent black in 2025 and how Ward 5 went from 85 percent black in 1995 to 45 percent black in 2025.

Lost in your "expert" analysis is the fact that these homeowners walk away with tons of cash due to the value of their home. But don't let facts get in the way of your virtue signaling.

Also, kid, nobody forces anyone to sell their home.

Well, property taxes force people to sell all the time. And they would have made a lot more money if they had been able to hold onto their houses and sold later.

And I would be a billionaire if I had invested in Apple in 1992. So what?

I mean, that's not even kinda, sorta analogous. Maybe just deal with the facts before you instead of coming up with dumb non-analogies. Look, you're free to be 100 percent in favor of gentrification, and you can say you don't care if people who happen to be poorer than you can't afford housing in this city. But then don't complain when you get squeezed out of the housing market too by other people who have more money than you.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, which single family homes were razed? Didn't happen in DC. I call outsider commentary.

do you think all those high end condo buildings were built on farm land? on empty fields?

The whole point of “increasing density” is getting rid of single family homes. That’s why the city is getting so white.

Huh? DC was whiter than it is now for most of its existence.

Yeah, they're not making a lot of sense. White people moving in doesn't particularly relate to the effort towards increased density. Also, given the number of row houses, there hasn't been nearly the propensity towards tearing down single family homes that Montgomery County has seen. Nor the changes in zoning that have been proposed there.

Developers buy single family homes from black people. They knock them down and replace them with expensive condos. They sell them to high income white people. That drives up housing prices and, with it, property taxes. More people are forced to sell their homes because of the property taxes, and the pattern repeats. This is how Ward 4 went from 80 percent black in 1995 to 42 percent black in 2025 and how Ward 5 went from 85 percent black in 1995 to 45 percent black in 2025.

Lost in your "expert" analysis is the fact that these homeowners walk away with tons of cash due to the value of their home. But don't let facts get in the way of your virtue signaling.

Also, kid, nobody forces anyone to sell their home.

Well, property taxes force people to sell all the time. And they would have made a lot more money if they had been able to hold onto their houses and sold later.

And I would be a billionaire if I had invested in Apple in 1992. So what?

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Anonymous wrote:Also, which single family homes were razed? Didn't happen in DC. I call outsider commentary.

do you think all those high end condo buildings were built on farm land? on empty fields?

The whole point of “increasing density” is getting rid of single family homes. That’s why the city is getting so white.

Huh? DC was whiter than it is now for most of its existence.

Yeah, they're not making a lot of sense. White people moving in doesn't particularly relate to the effort towards increased density. Also, given the number of row houses, there hasn't been nearly the propensity towards tearing down single family homes that Montgomery County has seen. Nor the changes in zoning that have been proposed there.

Developers buy single family homes from black people. They knock them down and replace them with expensive condos. They sell them to high income white people. That drives up housing prices and, with it, property taxes. More people are forced to sell their homes because of the property taxes, and the pattern repeats. This is how Ward 4 went from 80 percent black in 1995 to 42 percent black in 2025 and how Ward 5 went from 85 percent black in 1995 to 45 percent black in 2025.

Lost in your "expert" analysis is the fact that these homeowners walk away with tons of cash due to the value of their home. But don't let facts get in the way of your virtue signaling.

Also, kid, nobody forces anyone to sell their home.

Well, property taxes force people to sell all the time. And they would have made a lot more money if they had been able to hold onto their houses and sold later.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, which single family homes were razed? Didn't happen in DC. I call outsider commentary.

do you think all those high end condo buildings were built on farm land? on empty fields?

The whole point of “increasing density” is getting rid of single family homes. That’s why the city is getting so white.

Huh? DC was whiter than it is now for most of its existence.

Yeah, they're not making a lot of sense. White people moving in doesn't particularly relate to the effort towards increased density. Also, given the number of row houses, there hasn't been nearly the propensity towards tearing down single family homes that Montgomery County has seen. Nor the changes in zoning that have been proposed there.

Developers buy single family homes from black people. They knock them down and replace them with expensive condos. They sell them to high income white people. That drives up housing prices and, with it, property taxes. More people are forced to sell their homes because of the property taxes, and the pattern repeats. This is how Ward 4 went from 80 percent black in 1995 to 42 percent black in 2025 and how Ward 5 went from 85 percent black in 1995 to 45 percent black in 2025.

You need to check your figures.

Ward 5 is 58% black.
https://censusreporter.org/profiles/61000US11005-ward-5-dc/

Your numbers are from a couple years ago. I said 2025. Shows you how quickly the share is shrinking.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, which single family homes were razed? Didn't happen in DC. I call outsider commentary.

do you think all those high end condo buildings were built on farm land? on empty fields?

The whole point of “increasing density” is getting rid of single family homes. That’s why the city is getting so white.

Huh? DC was whiter than it is now for most of its existence.

Yeah, they're not making a lot of sense. White people moving in doesn't particularly relate to the effort towards increased density. Also, given the number of row houses, there hasn't been nearly the propensity towards tearing down single family homes that Montgomery County has seen. Nor the changes in zoning that have been proposed there.

Developers buy single family homes from black people. They knock them down and replace them with expensive condos. They sell them to high income white people. That drives up housing prices and, with it, property taxes. More people are forced to sell their homes because of the property taxes, and the pattern repeats. This is how Ward 4 went from 80 percent black in 1995 to 42 percent black in 2025 and how Ward 5 went from 85 percent black in 1995 to 45 percent black in 2025.

Lost in your "expert" analysis is the fact that these homeowners walk away with tons of cash due to the value of their home. But don't let facts get in the way of your virtue signaling.

Also, kid, nobody forces anyone to sell their home.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, which single family homes were razed? Didn't happen in DC. I call outsider commentary.

do you think all those high end condo buildings were built on farm land? on empty fields?

The whole point of “increasing density” is getting rid of single family homes. That’s why the city is getting so white.

Huh? DC was whiter than it is now for most of its existence.

Yeah, they're not making a lot of sense. White people moving in doesn't particularly relate to the effort towards increased density. Also, given the number of row houses, there hasn't been nearly the propensity towards tearing down single family homes that Montgomery County has seen. Nor the changes in zoning that have been proposed there.

Developers buy single family homes from black people. They knock them down and replace them with expensive condos. They sell them to high income white people. That drives up housing prices and, with it, property taxes. More people are forced to sell their homes because of the property taxes, and the pattern repeats. This is how Ward 4 went from 80 percent black in 1995 to 42 percent black in 2025 and how Ward 5 went from 85 percent black in 1995 to 45 percent black in 2025.

You need to check your figures.

Ward 5 is 58% black.
https://censusreporter.org/profiles/61000US11005-ward-5-dc/

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Anonymous wrote:Also, which single family homes were razed? Didn't happen in DC. I call outsider commentary.

do you think all those high end condo buildings were built on farm land? on empty fields?

The whole point of “increasing density” is getting rid of single family homes. That’s why the city is getting so white.

Huh? DC was whiter than it is now for most of its existence.

Yeah, they're not making a lot of sense. White people moving in doesn't particularly relate to the effort towards increased density. Also, given the number of row houses, there hasn't been nearly the propensity towards tearing down single family homes that Montgomery County has seen. Nor the changes in zoning that have been proposed there.

Developers buy single family homes from black people. They knock them down and replace them with expensive condos. They sell them to high income white people. That drives up housing prices and, with it, property taxes. More people are forced to sell their homes because of the property taxes, and the pattern repeats. This is how Ward 4 went from 80 percent black in 1995 to 42 percent black in 2025 and how Ward 5 went from 85 percent black in 1995 to 45 percent black in 2025.

Anonymous wrote:Lets look at TANF-- the difference between black and white in DC is even more dramatic. 97.5% of welfare recipients in DC are black. 2% are white.

You know that only 2% of the population receives TANF at any given time, right?

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Anonymous wrote:Lets look at TANF-- the difference between black and white in DC is even more dramatic. 97.5% of welfare recipients in DC are black. 2% are white.

That's because DC is 97% Black.

This is a joke, right? In 2020 DC was 40.91% Black.