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Yet another story about how the White 1 percent class "saved" a declining DC neighborhood and brought back the lights, sounds and money. The reporter did acknowledge, however, that some Mom & Pop shops and art galleries were forced to leave the 14th Street/Logan Circle area due to higher rents. The bigger, national commercial chains are gobbling up properties and landlords are hiking rents to the limit.
Get the popcorn. It will be fun watching $100,000/year white yuppies get pushed out by $200,000/year white yuppies. The colonizers will devour their own kind soon enough.
Yet another story about how the White 1 percent class "saved" a declining DC neighborhood and brought back the lights, sounds and money. The reporter did acknowledge, however, that some Mom & Pop shops and art galleries were forced to leave the 14th Street/Logan Circle area due to higher rents. The bigger, national commercial chains are gobbling up properties and landlords are hiking rents to the limit.
Get the popcorn. It will be fun watching $100,000/year white yuppies get pushed out by $200,000/year white yuppies. The colonizers will devour their own kind soon enough.
The article simply indicates the results of the economic boom in DC - nothing at all to suggest that these developments are specifically designed to serve the interests of white people.
Yes, the traditional landscape of the U street corridor is bound to be impacted by these changes just as Chinatown was impacted, but in this case there is nothing to demonstrate that only affluent whites will avail the benefit. It will be affluent folks irrespective of race/religion/creed etc.
Yet another story about how the White 1 percent class "saved" a declining DC neighborhood and brought back the lights, sounds and money. The reporter did acknowledge, however, that some Mom & Pop shops and art galleries were forced to leave the 14th Street/Logan Circle area due to higher rents. The bigger, national commercial chains are gobbling up properties and landlords are hiking rents to the limit.
Get the popcorn. It will be fun watching $100,000/year white yuppies get pushed out by $200,000/year white yuppies. The colonizers will devour their own kind soon enough.
Were you in DC when 14th Street was at its nadir? If you were, I don't think you'd be so bitter about its revitalization. 14th at its post-riot worst was one mean street. Hopefully, it will not simply end up a rich kids' playground, but if it does it will still be better than the open air drug market that used to thrive around 14th and W.
the homeless shelter was sold to turn it into
condos and retail. that is part of that boom
too. i guess the shelter couldn't afford to stay
nor would it look right in that area anymore.
wow!
the homeless shelter was sold to turn it into
condos and retail. that is part of that boom
too. i guess the shelter couldn't afford to stay
nor would it look right in that area anymore.
wow!
I believe they said the location was out of the way and didn't serve their targeted population anymore.
“Our new facility is located just a few blocks from Union Station and the bus station,” said the mission’s executive director David Treadwell, in an e-mail. “This location will also allow us to reach poor and needy people who have been pushed out of the [Northwest] corridor, but still have great need for the services offered by Central Union Mission.”
Were you in DC when 14th Street was at its nadir? If you were, I don't think you'd be so bitter about its revitalization. 14th at its post-riot worst was one mean street. Hopefully, it will not simply end up a rich kids' playground, but if it does it will still be better than the open air drug market that used to thrive around 14th and W.
Born and raised in DC, I'm happy about all the economic boom that's going on in the area. Columbia Heights use to be crack city man. I remember being like 5 years old, and helping my dad take out the trash and you could see syringes on the stairway. 14th street was awful, just awful.
You do know that in DC there are a lot of Latinos, Asians and Blacks that compromise this gentrification, right?
I doubt it. I would love to see stats though. A new building going up in DC will only have a handful of units occupied by minorities. If "a lot" means 5% to you, then maybe you're right.
I doubt it. I would love to see stats though. A new building going up in DC will only have a handful of units occupied by minorities. If "a lot" means 5% to you, then maybe you're right.
Rep points.....
DC is vanilla village now not chocolate city
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