Comments on: Logan Circle to Get More Gentrified? http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/06/logan-circle-to-get-more-gentrified/ Race, Class, The District. Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joe Vaughan http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/06/logan-circle-to-get-more-gentrified/#comment-1343 Joe Vaughan Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:28:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=8087#comment-1343  Sean, your friends--if decent--are afraid of their own shadows. They need to get over it. And these yuppie parasties y'all think are so wonderful need to be good and consequenced, period. It doesn't matter how. They're all scum of the most despicable variety and no punishment is too bad for them.  Sean, your friends–if decent–are afraid of their own shadows. They need to get over it. And these yuppie parasties y’all think are so wonderful need to be good and consequenced, period. It doesn’t matter how.

They’re all scum of the most despicable variety and no punishment is too bad for them.

]]> By: Josef Vonsnapp http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/06/logan-circle-to-get-more-gentrified/#comment-643 Josef Vonsnapp Wed, 22 Jun 2011 14:33:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=8087#comment-643 One good thing about hard times is that is sets limits to the arrogance of the rich. The subhuman yuppie filth who currently pollute Logan Circle can be made to learn the meaning of fear.  It won't take much. Their predecessors learned the same lesson.   To hell with them and to hell with their disgusting offspring. One good thing about hard times is that is sets limits to the arrogance of the rich.

The subhuman yuppie filth who currently pollute Logan Circle can be made to learn the meaning of fear.  It won’t take much. Their predecessors learned the same lesson.  

To hell with them and to hell with their disgusting offspring.

]]> By: Guest http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/06/logan-circle-to-get-more-gentrified/#comment-642 Guest Tue, 21 Jun 2011 13:50:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=8087#comment-642 Too bad that one person can scratch the whole deal for everyone else.  Kind of ironic too, since the point of a condo associattion is that it is more communal than simple single family homeownership. In any case, I hope these homeowners are able to cash in on this amazing windfall made possible by "gentrification" - something virtually any other middle and upper class family in the country would do in a similar situation (remember - we're talking 600-800% profit!).  Too bad that one person can scratch the whole deal for everyone else.  Kind of ironic too, since the point of a condo associattion is that it is more communal than simple single family homeownership.

In any case, I hope these homeowners are able to cash in on this amazing windfall made possible by ”gentrification” - something virtually any other middle and upper class family in the country would do in a similar situation (remember - we’re talking 600-800% profit!). 

]]> By: Sean Gallagher http://dcentric.wamu.org/2011/06/logan-circle-to-get-more-gentrified/#comment-637 Sean Gallagher Fri, 17 Jun 2011 19:48:00 +0000 http://dcentric.wamu.org/?p=8087#comment-637 I had a friend that lived in that exact complex. People were scared to visit him about 8 years ago.  Gentrification is such a complex issue. In this case - it's a nice windfall for these folks - they could sell their apartments and use the resources to uplift their family for generations to come.  Maybe they don't care or are not attached to where they live. Maybe they don't have to be nice urban fixtures for the white kids moving in. Maybe Wheaten is more attractive. The underlying principle is that it's nice to have diverse neighborhoods - with various cultures, backgrounds and incomes. The last few hundred years have seen a lot of injustice and we are still in recovery mode from this. The questions emerges... how do you map up desirable principles while emerging from an injustice? The world is still upside down. I had a friend that lived in that exact complex. People were scared to visit him about 8 years ago.  Gentrification is such a complex issue. In this case – it’s a nice windfall for these folks – they could sell their apartments and use the resources to uplift their family for generations to come.  Maybe they don’t care or are not attached to where they live. Maybe they don’t have to be nice urban fixtures for the white kids moving in. Maybe Wheaten is more attractive.

The underlying principle is that it’s nice to have diverse neighborhoods – with various cultures, backgrounds and incomes. The last few hundred years have seen a lot of injustice and we are still in recovery mode from this. The questions emerges… how do you map up desirable principles while emerging from an injustice? The world is still upside down.

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