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I don't understand her logic? Cheaper apartments are usually not in better parts of a building. Just like cheaper cruise ship rooms are not in the best part of the ship. There is opportunity for folks to move up and better living conditions is one of the goals. The housing debate here seems not sustainable. Development is a balance of often thin margins. Yesterday we went to Columbia Hgts and 11th street nearby. The changes there are amazing and were much needed. The quality of life there improved for all there. We should support raising the quality of life for DC residents, and stop our politics on class and race divisions. Ultimately, affordable housing is what one can afford. The issue isn't the developers, it's that the neighborhoods of those the middle class was happy to leave behind are coming online again, and those that live there can't afford it. There's only one real long term solution - they find a place they can afford. It's what people have done since the dawn of time. You didn't have a right to live in the castle. You lived where you could. You did the best you could, and hoped your children would strive beyond you.
There really isn't a natural right to housing. There just isn't.
In the end people make choices, and if children are impacted by their patent's choices. It's really all that's been constant. Those that are poor right now and have poor conditions. That is, well, what beong poor is. Yet poverty can be overcome. Our nation is full of those stories. Save for lottery winners, it takes effort and drive to climb our of poverty.
Instead of supporting policies that support poverty, let's support polices of opportunity and growth. Most of it, like libraries, universities, hospitals are products of the wealthy and not government. The steps Rocky climbed weren't a product of government, but the private sector.
Robby AKA Uncle T.
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Subject: [WardFive] Jonetta Rose Barras: The return of 'separate but equal'?
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