Submitted by NPRjunkieDC t3_10ixz3k in washingtondc
SeeToTheThird t1_j5i6vjl wrote
Reply to comment by flyswat88 in Streets on Columbia robbed, manager hurt this afternoon by NPRjunkieDC
Go back to silver spring
LeoMarius t1_j5i9kq3 wrote
That’s what happened to old DC. Everyone with money moved out, leaving it a hellhole for decades.
Be careful what you wish for.
mistersmiley318 t1_j5kk8gs wrote
That's a rather charitable way of describing white flight and systemic disinvestment.
LeoMarius t1_j5ko0k8 wrote
Because the city turned toxic. Don't blame people for institutional problems.
mistersmiley318 t1_j5kq8pc wrote
I highly encourage you to read this. "The city turning toxic" is not the reason white residents left. Massive subsidies for suburban and segregated development (GI Bill, urban freeways, racial covenants) and resistance to desegregation in schools were the primary factors white residents left. The pattern of large sections of the tax base fleeing to the suburbs repeated itself all over which is why most American cities were faced with crippling budget shortfalls and racially motivated disinvestment in the 70s and 80s.
LeoMarius t1_j5l7k8d wrote
Housing got a lot cheaper when whites fled the city.
Maybe you haven't heard of the 1968 riots.
MajesticBread9147 t1_j5ihxqu wrote
Everyone with money moved out? Then where's the corresponding rent decrease? Ask anybody who grew up in DC before the 90s and they'll tell you it was much less expensive.
LeoMarius t1_j5j5l4e wrote
That’s what I said.
Obvious-Design8030 t1_j5ialdc wrote
Oh, old DC had a movement to reform it's criminal justice system based on a modern a understanding of criminology? All while most of old DC was not administered by DC residents.
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