Washington, D.C. is no different and with the future opening of an Amazon HQ right across the Potomac in Crystal City, real estate is now at a premium and “affordable housing” needs are not only a necessity, but a tax lure for overspending politicians. DC’s mayor is no different and she wants input from her constituents.

Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration will host community meetings throughout the city this summer to establish neighborhood targets laying out how to distribute a total of 12,000 new affordable housing units over the next six years.
— The DC Line, 5/13/19

Be careful what you ask for….

Great, a Democrat mayor hooking up “city employees” but that’s not going to mean much for those who see what’s happening all around them.

Washington, D.C.’s neighborhoods have experienced intense gentrification, resulting in the displacement of more than 20,000 African American residents from 2000 to 2013, a study released Tuesday said. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition’s study of that 13-year period found that the District had the highest percentage of gentrifying neighborhoods out of all the cities analyzed.
— NBC4 Washington, 3/20/19

Here’s the problem: whenever government gets involved, the needs of the people are secondary, especially in areas where show-politicians know they really don’t have to make good on promises to get reelected. Now, where government agencies and career-welfare nonprofits DO overperform is pointing to someone else to provide customer service.

And when you go to DC Housing Search, you won’t find much by way of “affordable housing”. For example, if you search for a 3-bedroom home between $1 and $200,000, the pickins’ are slim… like two.

When you up the price between $200,000 and the website’s “affordable housing” max of $350,000, the available home choices skyrocket… to ten and a few of the pricier ones managed to sneak through.

Kinda’ makes you wonder who owns the more expensive units because seldom does anything happen in a predominantly black district that doesn’t benefit the grease-palming, well-connected.

It’s not like blacks haven’t seen this movie before and it usually ends with them being forced out and upwardly-mobile whites (who donate much more to political campaigns than blacks) moving in, demanding and getting bike paths and dog parks.

The tens of thousands who have migrated to the Washington, D.C., over the last five years live in a city that rolled out the proverbial red carpet for their arrival. Infrastructure has been altered, public property has been privatized, the will of voters has been rescinded, minority-owned businesses have been shuttered and the bodies of people of color have been stopped and frisked to accommodate and enhance the respective presence and comfort of newcomers.
— National Community Reinvestment Coalition, 3/18/19

And speaking of surveys…

The District had the highest rate of homelessness in a new survey that looked at the problem in 32 U.S. cities.

The “Hunger and Homelessness” survey from the U.S. Conference of Mayors found that D.C. has 124.2 homeless people for every 10,000 residents in the general population. The city also had one of the fastest increases in homelessness between 2009 and 2016, with a 34.1 percent gain. By comparison, New York had the largest increase during that period, at 49 percent.

The office of Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) said the report shows that more work needs to be done to battle the city’s shortage of affordable housing.
— Washington Post, 12/14/16

That was then and gentrification only exacerbates an “affordable housing” problem.

Bowser technically isn’t a “liar”. New housing units WILL be built in Washington, D.C. and some will be “affordable” for her constituents.

Who those constituents will end up being is a whole other story, but as long as they vote her back in, do you think she really cares?

UPDATE: #DontMuteDC

As these things gain relevance once a hashtag is attached, DC’s gentrification has gained national attention. Here’s what set it all off.

For 24 years, Donald Campbell has been playing go-go music from his Metro PCS storefront in Shaw, at the corner of 7th Street and Florida NW. Until now. Campbell says that T-Mobile, which acquired Metro PCS, reached out to him about a month ago: “They said, ‘get rid of the music.’ It came from up top that we had to get rid of it,” he says.

According to Campbell, T-Mobile told him that a nearby resident threatened the company with a lawsuit over the sounds that have blared from the speakers since 1995. He says that he had to turn off the music two weeks ago, and since then, “Every day all day, people think we’re closed. People have been complaining, asking what’s going on.”

According to Campbell, the complaint came from a resident in The Shay, a nearby luxury mixed-use development. “We can’t confirm or deny that,” says the person who answered the phone at The Shay’s office, and declined to provide their name. “There have been complaints about the music being extremely loud, but it’s not just The Shay. It’s people who live all over or are visiting the area. It’s not The Shay that has the issue.”

Since one tweet called out the lack of music at Metro PCS on Saturday, people have been using the hashtag #DontMuteDC to talk about the situation. The hashtag is currently trending locally.

Long a tight-knit, predominantly black community, Shaw has changed at such a dizzying pace over the past decade and a half that the neighborhood is often used as a symbol of gentrification across the District. Shaw saw its black population plummet from 78 percent in 1990 to 44 percent in 2010 (that’s from the most recent Census data, but the numbers have almost certainly continued to drop in the ensuing years). Meanwhile, property values have jumped—pushing out many longtime residents, while developers co-opt Shaw and U Street’s history in the names of luxury condo buildings.
— The DCist, 4/8/19

If this isn’t a clear example of the ramifications of gentrification, what is?

I grew up in the section of Boston called The South End which was sandwiched between the more affluent Back Bay and the impoverished neighborhood of Roxbury, considered “the heart of Black culture in Boston“. When I later got my own apartment on Tremont Street, I (as a courtesy) escorted all of my white friends in; not because they’d really be all that endangered but to make them feel comfortable.

That was in the 70s.

Now, when we go visit that same area, I am met with glares of suspicion from tolerant, inclusive white liberals of all ages. It’s like they want to know if I have a reason to be in this area that was technically the Hood and now a very expensive enclave of condos and high-priced luxury apartments?

So when I see what recently happened in a gentrified section of New York City, I understand….

This young, privileged millennial-sounding woman riding a bicycle acts she owns the neighborhood street.

She pays no excise taxes, regularly-scheduled inspection fees, insurance, fuel, routine maintenance or any other massive expense those who drive automobiles do, yet she believes she can stop traffic and talk down to those who may have previously lived there and no longer can afford to.

In 2014, Spike Lee relayed the sentiment by gentrification-affected blacks pushed out by the yuppie class.

Here’s the thing: I grew up here in Fort Greene. I grew up here in New York. It’s changed. And why does it take an influx of white New Yorkers in the south Bronx, in Harlem, in Bed Stuy, in Crown Heights for the facilities to get better? The garbage wasn’t picked up every motherfuckin’ day when I was living in 165 Washington Park. P.S. 20 was not good. P.S. 11. Rothschild 294. The police weren’t around. When you see white mothers pushing their babies in strollers, three o’clock in the morning on 125th Street, that must tell you something.

[Audience member: And I don’t dispute that … ]

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. And even more. Let me kill you some more.

[Audience member: Can I talk about something?]

Not yet.

Then comes the motherfuckin’ Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here. You just can’t come and bogart. There were brothers playing motherfuckin’ African drums in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can’t do it anymore because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud. My father’s a great jazz musician. He bought a house in nineteen-motherfuckin’-sixty-eight, and the motherfuckin’ people moved in last year and called the cops on my father. He’s not — he doesn’t even play electric bass! It’s acoustic! We bought the motherfuckin’ house in nineteen-sixty-motherfuckin’-eight and now you call the cops? In 2013? Get the fuck outta here!

Nah. You can’t do that. You can’t just come in the neighborhood and start bogarting and say, like you’re motherfuckin’ Columbus and kill off the Native Americans. Or what they do in Brazil, what they did to the indigenous people. You have to come with respect. There’s a code. There’s people.

You can’t just — here’s another thing: When Michael Jackson died they wanted to have a party for him in motherfuckin’ Fort Greene Park and all of a sudden the white people in Fort Greene said, “Wait a minute! We can’t have black people having a party for Michael Jackson to celebrate his life. Who’s coming to the neighborhood? They’re gonna leave lots of garbage.” Garbage? Have you seen Fort Greene Park in the morning? It’s like the motherfuckin’ Westminster Dog Show. There’s 20,000 dogs running around. Whoa. So we had to move it to Prospect Park!

I mean, they just move in the neighborhood. You just can’t come in the neighborhood. I’m for democracy and letting everybody live but you gotta have some respect. You can’t just come in when people have a culture that’s been laid down for generations and you come in and now shit gotta change because you’re here? Get the fuck outta here. Can’t do that!

And then! [to audience member] Whoa whoa whoa. And then! So you’re talking about the people’s property change? But what about the people who are renting? They can’t afford it anymore! You can’t afford it. People want live in Fort Greene. People wanna live in Clinton Hill. The Lower East Side, they move to Williamsburg, they can’t even afford fuckin’, motherfuckin’ Williamsburg now because of motherfuckin’ hipsters. What do they call Bushwick now? What’s the word? [Audience: East Williamsburg]

That’s another thing: Motherfuckin’… These real estate motherfuckers are changing names! Stuyvesant Heights? 110th to 125th, there’s another name for Harlem. What is it? What? What is it? No, no, not Morningside Heights. There’s a new one. [Audience: SpaHa] What the fuck is that? How you changin’ names?

And we had the crystal ball, motherfuckin’ Do the Right Thing with John Savage’s character, when he rolled his bike over Buggin’ Out’s sneaker. I wrote that script in 1988. He was the first one. How you walking around Brooklyn with a Larry Bird jersey on? You can’t do that. Not in Bed Stuy.

So, look, you might say, “Well, there’s more police protection. The public schools are better.” Why are the public schools better? First of all, everybody can’t afford — even if you have money it’s still hard to get your kids into private school. Everybody wants to go to Saint Ann’s — you can’t get into Saint Ann’s. You can’t get into Friends. What’s the other one? In Brooklyn Heights. Packer. If you can’t get your child into there … It’s crazy. There’s a business now where people — you pay — people don’t even have kids yet and they’re taking this course about how to get your kid into private school. I’m not lying! If you can’t get your kid into private school and you’re white here, what’s the next best thing? All right, now we’re gonna go to public schools.

So, why did it take this great influx of white people to get the schools better? Why’s there more police protection in Bed Stuy and Harlem now? Why’s the garbage getting picked up more regularly? We been here!

All right, go ahead. Let’s see you come back to that.

h/t Erik Pistek

Massachusetts leaders are condemning President Donald Trump’s alleged remark that immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and Africa come from “sh**hole” countries. Massachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker said the alleged comments made by the president during a meeting about immigration were disgraceful. “Those comments are appalling and disgraceful and have no place anywhere in public or private discourse. Period,” Baker said. “He owes an apology to all of those people who he broad-brushed with those statements.”
— WCVB Boston, 1/12/18

While there’s no concrete proof the president actually used the #shithole word and Democrats and their media are blindly taking the word of a documented liar in the United States Senate, it’s again quite ironic white Massachusetts liberals are lecturing the rest of America about racial intolerance when Boston has a well-deserved reputation of treating black people like second-class citizens in their own hometown.

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh issued a proclamation Friday calling Jan. 12 “Day of Solidarity with Haiti” to celebrate Boston’s Haitian community and their contributions to the city on the anniversary of when a devastating earthquake hit the country. “What makes our city, state and country strong is diversity. We need to respect and welcome all — no exceptions,” Walsh tweeted. “8 years after a devastating earthquake struck Haiti, we stand in solidarity with Haiti, and celebrate its enormous contributions to Boston.”

Sounds great, if that were really true as Boston has the same racial disparity and oppression issues almost every Democrat-controlled municipality has. That also includes ignorant black people who excuse the very people who continue to keep their living standard limited. I would know as I was born in Boston and grew up in her surrounding suburbs.

While in high school and traveling on the Red Line with friends, I was sucker-punched by a white kid who quickly ran off the train at South Station.

After high school, I rented an apartment in the South End which was a seven minute walk from Symphony Hall where I worked. At that time, the South End was considered the edge of Roxbury (the black community) and as a protective courtesy, I escorted-in any of my white friends who came by for a visit. That was in the 70’s. Today, that same neighborhood has been successfully gentrified and now I get those “What are YOU doing here?” looks from snooty millennials and scraggly-hair older liberals.

I was falsely accused in the early 80’s of rape and despite Brookline detectives assuring me they knew I couldn’t have been in two places at the same time, the white female Suffolk County district attorney would have none of it and if it wasn’t for the cheating “victim” recanting her accusation three hours before I was to be indicted, I may have spent a good portion of my life in prison.

This is just another example of liberals acting as though their racist pasts, especially in Boston, never happened because whenever you hear a professional athlete calling Boston a racist city and incidents prove the point, it makes their outrage against President Trump even more full of shit.

Democrats are no one to call anyone racist as their past is littered with examples, like Boston.

June 21, 1974 — Federal District Court Judge W. Arthur Garrity ruled that the Boston School Committee had deliberately segregated the city’s schools, creating one system for blacks and another for whites — separate, unequal and unconstitutional. Southie was ground zero for anti-busing rage. Hundreds of white demonstrators — children and their parents — pelted a caravan of 20 school buses carrying students from nearly all-black Roxbury to all-white South Boston. The police wore riot gear.

“I remember riding the buses to protect the kids going up to South Boston High School,” Jean McGuire, who was a bus safety monitor, recalled recently. “And the bricks through the window. Signs hanging out those buildings, ‘Nigger Go Home.’ Pictures of monkeys. The words. The spit. People just felt it was all right to attack children.”
— WBUR, 9/5/14

These racist sentiments didn’t come from a bunch of drunk townies on the street, taking it to the next level.

It came from within Boston’s elected and Democrat base.

Louise Day Hicks, the Boston public school official and City Council member whose opposition to busing to achieve school integration helped to polarize the city in the 1960’s and made her a national symbol of racial division. To her supporters, she was a champion of working-class residents and neighborhood schools. To her opponents, she epitomized an unwillingness to breach a deep-seated racial divide in deeply segregated Boston.

“She became the symbol, if you please, of someone who was against desegregating Boston schools,” said Paul Parks, who was chairman of the education committee of the Boston N.A.A.C.P. in the 1960’s, a former state secretary of education and a former president of the Boston School Committee. “She would not admit segregation exists.”
— New York Times, 10/23/03

Louise Day Hicks was a classic example of the psychotic mentality too many liberal Democrats have to this day. They have been racist, some continue to be racist, and they’ll never admit they are racists.

She refused to meet with Gov. George C. Wallace of Alabama (Democrat), an ardent segregationist, telling a reporter that she did not want to be connected with him. “The important thing is that I’m not bigoted,” she once said.

Of course not.

In the 70’s, I only went to one of my best friend’s apartment to hang out once because he lived in Southie and I had to lay down on the back seat after midnight and run in low under cover of darkness. It was that bad for any black person in South Boston.

Each bus was greeted with chorus of obscene shouts and gestures, cries of “nigger,” and, once, a couple of wooden slats hurled at the side. Several women in the crowd kept running stream of invective. Later City Councilor Louise Day Hicks, the symbol of antibusing resistance, moved among the crowd. In her high, small voice, startling coming from her large frame, she said: “Go home, there’ll‐ be another day.”

There was hostility toward reporters. A woman screamed at a female reporter approaching with notebook. As a black television sound man turned away from the crowds, a youth ran out and delivered a karate kick to the small of his back, A cameraman was decked across the hood of a car.

“Any white kid that goes to school out of his neighborhood should be shot, and any black kid that comes out of his neighborhood to school here should be shot,” said a pudgy man in a pork‐pie hat.
— New York Times, 9/13/74

Republican President Richard Nixon was against busing because he rightfully didn’t think putting black kids into better white schools and white kids into neglected black schools would, if anything, encourage better education, let alone racial harmony. But it also showed the Democrat-run Boston City Council’s ongoing lack of proper funding for black education; an issue that still exists nationwide to this day.

Is Boston better than it was back in the 60’s and 70’s? Yes. Are Democrats the ones to be pointing sanctimonious fingers at Republicans? Not this time, either. White liberal Democrats are in control of almost every facet of life in Boston and yet the inner bitching by aggrieved minorities who are still too stupid to connect the dots continues.

Until liberals address and sincerely apologize for their historical legacy of racism and oppression, they have no credibility calling out anyone, let alone a president who’s done more to lift blacks out of poverty in one year than their Democrats have in more than half a century.