Great Post!
This is happening all over the country. It's much more evident in places such as Harlem. It seems they are taking over our historical areas and pushing us out to venture towards another area that in a couple of years they will take over. What amazing me that in the top 10 largest cities in the US, someone making minimum wage, working Full Time can not afford a 1 bedroom apt. Imagine all of our single mothers trying to make ends meat. Affordable housing is a huge issues.
Yes, Gentrification is alive and well in Dc... take for instance U street near Club U... Now they have opened million dollar condo's in that area... Back in the day, that was where black folks reigned... those days are numbered.
Pooquie,
I keep telling out people wake up or ship out cause if u ain't on the up n up u going to be left out.
The problem lies in the fact that many People of Color can no longer afford to take care of the places they once dwelled. As taxes rise and salaries fall, many can't keep up with the various expenses of owning a home. The economy continues to sway and with Affirmative Action a distant dream, jobs are hard to come by throwing us deeper into poverty.
Is it a part of a greater scheme, a plot to extradite us from the coveted city real estate? Whatever the case, its working and on a grand scale.
As I once heard Harlem historian Michael Henry Adams say, Black people never owned Harlem. We only rented.
I suspect that is also the case in these other cities. Instead of buying the places where we lived, we've been tenants, easily displaced by anyone willing to pay more.
Yet we will buy Cadillacs (back in the day) or Mercedes, BMW, Lexus or Hummers. The idea of putting money down on something with real lasting value has escaped us. We are victims of our own ignorance and excesses.
This is something that has been planned for the DC area for since the eighties from what I have been told, that it happened to us due to the fact that Mayor Williams sold out, that alot of black homeowners sold out to the old mighty dollar, and of course with the rise in home taxes alot of people cannot afford to keep paying those taxes, conspiratorial yes, most of all the blacks are being moved out to PG county, where all the white people moved out sometime ago, probably during a democratic presidency. So much like you I had Brown Sugar Dream as well when I retired from the military but I don't think that will no longer be a reality for me, I may in fact do like most gay men are doing relocate to the ATL
It is quite amazing to watch it all happen. I grew up in Bed-Stuy and today as I walk its streets I notice the many different faces and wonder how long will it be before the natives can no longer afford their community. Massa is coming.
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