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Jews and Italians sue the city to keep blacks from moving into their neighborhood
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2018 Jul 2, 4:32am 1,617 views 9 comments
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HeadSet
2018 Jul 2, 6:19am
HeadSet
2018 Jul 2, 6:19am
She is "angered that they have replaced her community with another one she largely does not know because the buildings are self-sustaining and residents stay in them," according to the lawsuit.
"Self-sustaining?" What does that mean? The building has its own liquor store?
"Self-sustaining?" What does that mean? The building has its own liquor store?
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HeadSet
2018 Jul 2, 6:24am
HeadSet
2018 Jul 2, 6:24am
In two responses filed on Monday, the city rejected these charges and asked a judge to dismiss the case, in part because the complaint does "not plausibly allege that the District implemented its development policies with the intent to discriminate."
Funny, 'cause the rest of us have to deal with courts slamming us with "disparate impact" when we make a decision based on logical business factors.
Funny, 'cause the rest of us have to deal with courts slamming us with "disparate impact" when we make a decision based on logical business factors.
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HeadSet
2018 Jul 2, 6:29am
HeadSet
2018 Jul 2, 6:29am
she expects eventually to take over her uncle's home,
And when she gets that windfall inheritance, she can sell or rent to a "creative class" and move to any number of suburbs with affordable housing. Virginia is full of affordable nice areas that are still close to hospitals and other amenities.
And when she gets that windfall inheritance, she can sell or rent to a "creative class" and move to any number of suburbs with affordable housing. Virginia is full of affordable nice areas that are still close to hospitals and other amenities.
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Goran_K
2018 Jul 2, 6:34am
Goran_K
2018 Jul 2, 6:34am
This is the problem with Democrats and intersectionality. In a bid to try to turn everyone into a victim group, you end up disenfranchising some groups.
Seriously, just ask an average black person what they think of the LGBT community or illegal aliens.
Seriously, just ask an average black person what they think of the LGBT community or illegal aliens.
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Patrick
2018 Jul 2, 7:57am
Patrick
2018 Jul 2, 7:57am
Goran_K says
I don't know what the usual black attitude toward LGBT things is, but of course illegals are directly harming black US citizens by letting employers undercut their wages and break labor laws, and I expect most black people know that and are not too happy about it.
Sure, lots of Hispanic people are in pretty desperate straits, but our first responsibility is to our own citizens, not to foreigners.
just ask an average black person what they think of the LGBT community or illegal aliens
I don't know what the usual black attitude toward LGBT things is, but of course illegals are directly harming black US citizens by letting employers undercut their wages and break labor laws, and I expect most black people know that and are not too happy about it.
Sure, lots of Hispanic people are in pretty desperate straits, but our first responsibility is to our own citizens, not to foreigners.
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Shaman
2018 Jul 2, 8:09am
Shaman
2018 Jul 2, 8:09am
Gentrification is all about reclaiming geographically desirable land from ghetto dwellers, raising rents in the process to push out leech class people who beg for a living and installing productive class people who work for a living. If the beggars tend to be mostly black, that’s more an indictment on the local black community than it is a criticism on the policy. Basically, gentrification goes like this: go be poor somewhere else!
Once rent rises, landlords aren’t willing to take section 8 vouchers and welfare types (and other low income people) must find less desirable areas in which to squat.
Same thing is happening in LA area. Geographically desirable (but historically crime-ridden) areas like Compton and Watts, Bellflower and Garden Grove are being gentrified as ordinary working class citizens are priced out of the higher income beach enclaves, and are turning to formerly bad neighborhoods for establishing a residence. As they move in, real estate has risen in these areas dramatically, along with rents. This pushes out the remaining bad element, leaving free land for building and upgrading existing dwellings and shops.
Once rent rises, landlords aren’t willing to take section 8 vouchers and welfare types (and other low income people) must find less desirable areas in which to squat.
Same thing is happening in LA area. Geographically desirable (but historically crime-ridden) areas like Compton and Watts, Bellflower and Garden Grove are being gentrified as ordinary working class citizens are priced out of the higher income beach enclaves, and are turning to formerly bad neighborhoods for establishing a residence. As they move in, real estate has risen in these areas dramatically, along with rents. This pushes out the remaining bad element, leaving free land for building and upgrading existing dwellings and shops.
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Goran_K
2018 Jul 2, 8:45am
Goran_K
2018 Jul 2, 8:45am
Patrick says
They're right about the harm illegal aliens do to the local economy, not just to blacks or hispanics, but to everyone.
In 2008 California had Prop 8 on the ballot, which would define marriage as male-female, completely eliminating gay marriage (not civil unions however).
Guess if it passed in blue as blue Democrat California.
Yup, it did. That only happens because blacks and mexicans don't consider themselves on the same team as the LGBT community. Intersectionality is a myth.
I actually voted against Prop 8 (and I'm considered a right wing conversative by the democrats on this website).
I don't know what the usual black attitude toward LGBT things is, but of course illegals are directly harming black US citizens by letting employers undercut their wages and break labor laws, and I expect most black people know that and are not too happy about it.
Sure, lots of Hispanic people are in pretty desperate straits, but our first responsibility is to our own citizens, not to foreigners.
They're right about the harm illegal aliens do to the local economy, not just to blacks or hispanics, but to everyone.
In 2008 California had Prop 8 on the ballot, which would define marriage as male-female, completely eliminating gay marriage (not civil unions however).
Guess if it passed in blue as blue Democrat California.
Yup, it did. That only happens because blacks and mexicans don't consider themselves on the same team as the LGBT community. Intersectionality is a myth.
I actually voted against Prop 8 (and I'm considered a right wing conversative by the democrats on this website).
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MisdemeanorRebel
2018 Jul 2, 10:32am
MisdemeanorRebel
2018 Jul 2, 10:32am
Yep, the key component of POC is that everybody is united against Whitey.
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Ceffer
2018 Jul 2, 10:49am
Ceffer
2018 Jul 2, 10:49am
Washington DC, because it is the seat of government, has been the biggest welfare tit in the country with all kinds of freebies. Guess who that attracted?
So, people who kept communities as downgraded cesspools for generations are mad because somebody comes in and improves the place?
Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
So, people who kept communities as downgraded cesspools for generations are mad because somebody comes in and improves the place?
Damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Although she expects eventually to take over her uncle's home, Ball is anxious she could be forced to move out of the area as rents continue to rise.
She is part of a lawsuit saying more than a decade of urban development planning aimed at turning Washington into a "world-class city" has been successful in attracting thousands of young, well-educated professionals to the detriment of minority communities, and particularly older people within those groups.
The lawsuit, filed last month, comes as the city grapples with some of the highest rents in the country and amid a national crisis in affordable housing.
Ball is particularly worried by a new 6,000-unit development going up just blocks from where she lives, part of a massive revitalization project that has transformed the Union Market neighbourhood she lives in.
She is "angered that they have replaced her community with another one she largely does not know because the buildings are self-sustaining and residents stay in them," according to the lawsuit.
Ball also says the businesses that have come in to cater to the new population are different from those she uses — while some she used to rely on have closed.
SEEKING CREATIVES
Over the past three mayoral administrations, according to the lawsuit, the District of Columbia, as the U.S. capital is also known, has purposefully sought to attract young residents who are part of the "creative class."
In so doing, the city has overlooked the impacts of these policies on the poorer, often African American neighbourhoods, even when courts have directed officials to take into account "adverse impacts" such as gentrification, according to the attorney bringing the lawsuit.
"I know a lot of cities have followed policies that directly seek to attract people of a certain age and people who make their livings a certain way," attorney Aristotle Theresa told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
"But to the extent that you alter land-use policy in a way that influences access to housing and public facilities and amenities, then that may be discrimination" based on source of income and age, said Theresa, whose practice, Stoop Law, is located in one of the city's poorest communities.
He said the lawsuit is the result of three years of planning decisions during which he said he found a pattern of "questionable decisions".
In addition to Ball, the lawsuit names two other individuals and the members of an African-American community-development programme, all of whom have testified about gentrification and related issues before city planning officials.
Their testimony was essentially ignored because of the broader economic development policy in place, Theresa says.
"None of the clients fit within the group of people that they wanted to attract to the city: None of them would qualify as 'creative class' members, and none of them are millennials," Theresa said.
In two responses filed on Monday, the city rejected these charges and asked a judge to dismiss the case, in part because the complaint does "not plausibly allege that the District implemented its development policies with the intent to discriminate."
The city also emphasized it "understands" the lawsuit's "concerns about the changing natures of their communities and the challenges they and others face in securing the homes and neighborhoods they desire. Indeed, the District has invested great time and effort to address such concerns for all of its residents."
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