Gentrification In DC

Gentrification has become a increasingly popular practice in Washington DC in the past 10 years. More prevalent in the NW quadrant of the district. There has been a mass movement of people, predominately Black, from upper NW neighborhoods that they have inhabited for more than 60 years. As of now gentrification has begun in the SE and SW quadrant of the city. Many of the public housing complexes and projects have been demolished and transformed into mixed income townhouses and high rises. DC has has uprooted tens of thousands of native Washingtonian's and moved them outside of the city, the majority of them into the Prince George's County of Maryland. In my personal opinion, the SE and SW quadrants desperately needed the revitalization that the gentrification brought. As for the gentrification of the NW quadrant, only some areas needed the revitalization, such areas like 14th Street and Mt. Vernon. Areas like Columbia Heights, Shaw, NoMA, and Truxton Circle were areas that were targeted by development companies and the District government to move working class/low income Blacks out of the prime real-estate areas, to make room for the influx of "diverse" middle class citizens. My family and many of my friends have become victims of the savage gentrification efforts in the district!