To do this on public land as the city is saturated with luxury housing for single professionals is criminal especially considering DC’s immense racial wealth disparities, Thus the unaffordable market rate housing being built in any project will be segregated by class and race.
Shouldn’t the city let Cushman & Wakefield deliver for the luxury class of single professionals and we use our public land for public needs like truly affordable housing (such as social housing) instead of the status quo behavior to use our public land and assets to financially back some private developer’s bottom line.
The opaque dealing with our public property allows the public officials to pick and choose the private winners of our public land and then these officials become king makers instead of creative public interest leaders like those who exist elsewhere.
There’s been no info shared on the future of our first responders other than some vague promises that those services will remain and come back to the redevelopment. We’ve been hearing otherwise, including from Councilmembers Nadeau and Pinto who are side stepping with the “It will be up to those agencies to decide what to do.” Say what?
As ANC Commissioner Shapiro said (at almost midnight on May 3, 2023): “The facts are it could all be affordable housing if the city were willing to pay for it.” “The idea that we would allow a zoning map change to this extent [to build lots more market rate housing] as inappropriate to the neighborhood is a little shocking to me.” https://youtu.be/r-4C7VaOaGg?t=15416
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