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Push for more development and funding in low income/crime ridden areas (East of the River). Hopefully he speaks about the crime here, and come up with ways to reduce it.
Are you serious? This whole city is pretty much going through gentrification. Right now Anacostia is going through it and you better believe the neighboring areas will go through the same process. I live in Ivy City which is going through it now, albeit at a slower rate than some other areas. Trinidad and Brookland have also been going through it. I think DC should be a world class city and its definitely going through that process. DC will be completely different 10 years from now. Neighborhoods that are considered unsafe will have Whole Foods and Starbucks in them and be charging over $2,000/month in rent on average for a 1 bedroom.
Almost all the fed agencies are headquartered here...if not here its within 30 miles of the city. And most private companies in the area are contractors
Push for more development and funding in low income/crime ridden areas (East of the River). Hopefully he speaks about the crime here, and come up with ways to reduce it.
At the absolute most o can see Trump doing is building a hotel or some other real estate in his name....and that's being extreme
Most likely Trump won't do jack about squat over there. Reagan bush I Clinton Bush II did nothing over there. At most Obama visited some elementary schools and donated his kids swing set to a woman's shelter on Naylor road. Trump administration won't do more for DC besides giving them.permission to do their day to day business (bc congress controls DC in case yall forgot!)
Almost all the fed agencies are headquartered here...if not here its within 30 miles of the city. And most private companies in the area are contractors
True. But the majority of Government workers nationwide do not work in DC. Every state has Government workers. You go to Hawaii and there will be people there who work for the Government.
I just saw a reference the other day that the WMA workforce is 12% federal employees. However, it's true that if you include federal contractors that would go way up. But that said, the comment about the military industrial complex in DC is huge and it grows under Republicans. Honestly, the most DC has struggled since the '90s was under Obama and sequester which stagnated defense spending and it caused fair number of projects to stall. I lived that in Navy Yard in the 2013 and 2014 era but those have picked back up. Same thing in the office market in Arlington with Class A office space that is at pretty high vacancy rates the last few years. A fair number of federal offices/contractor offices have moved out to Tyson's and further out. So I think DC will be fairly unchanged (which is good) or better because of defense spending.
I just saw a reference the other day that the WMA workforce is 12% federal employees. However, it's true that if you include federal contractors that would go way up. But that said, the comment about the military industrial complex in DC is huge and it grows under Republicans. Honestly, the most DC has struggled since the '90s was under Obama and sequester which stagnated defense spending and it caused fair number of projects to stall. I lived that in Navy Yard in the 2013 and 2014 era but those have picked back up. Same thing in the office market in Arlington with Class A office space that is at pretty high vacancy rates the last few years. A fair number of federal offices/contractor offices have moved out to Tyson's and further out. So I think DC will be fairly unchanged (which is good) or better because of defense spending.
What? DC struggled under Obama?
DC has been great under Obama. It went through its "Renaissance" under Obama. DC went from murder capital to world class city under Obama.
US Metro Areas with Highest Share of Federal Employees - 2013
1. Colorado Springs, Colorado - 16.4%
2. Virginia Beach, Virginia - 16.1%
3. Honolulu, Hawaii - 15.4%
4. Washington, DC - 14.1%
5. Ogden-Clearfield, Utah - 11.1%
6. El Paso, Texas - 11%
7. San Diego, California - 10%
Not much. As much as he is proposing cutting, he is increasing elsewhere. So there may be cuts in one department, but defense or homeland security will see increases. People do not realize how flexible the local workforce is, people jump from non-defense, to defense pretty easily. What changes is basically how the budget is prioritized. Also a large chunk is private, and does not contract with the feds, contrary to what some people are saying.
On top of that the nonprofit industry is actually bound to grow, largely because many large orgs in DC to fight Trump will grow during this period. HRC, ACLU, World Wildlife Fund, etc. It is far easier to fund-raise and justify your existence with an identifiable enemy.
I have to agree, I have a hard time seeing things being hurt economically, just shifting. The contractors especially will make out like bandits, since defense contracts tend to pay the best. Many feds who are let go just end up going to NGOs, Nonprofits, or contractors. It ends up being musical chairs, with lots of extra chairs.
There is also far more private industry here now, than there was before Obama came in.
So I am not sure how much will change in DC itself. GOP presidents mean more defense spending, Democratic ones mean more spending on social programs. At the end of the day the local economy is pretty much the same.
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