August 18, 2011 | 3:53 PM | By

“District’s Hispanics leaving Mount Pleasant for Georgia Ave”

According to a George Mason University analysis, the cost of a condominium in Mount Pleasant nearly tripled between 2000 and 2010. A lack of affordable housing is responsible for the residential shift to Georgia Avenue. But while Hispanics are moving to and living elsewhere, they are still shopping in Mount Pleasant, where small businesses cater to them.

The transition over the last decade has been led by Salvadorans, who increased their share of the District’s 54,749 Hispanics to more than 30 percent, up from 26 percent in 2000. While neighborhoods in Columbia Heights and Mount Pleasant saw their Salvadoran population drop between 13 percent and 33 percent, Salvadorans in the Park View and Brightwood neighborhoods more than doubled by 2010.

— washingtonexaminer.com

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