{"id":1066,"date":"2024-04-24T00:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-24T00:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/?p=1066"},"modified":"2026-02-10T01:16:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T01:16:48","slug":"fwd-press-alert-ward-one-cm-brianne-nadeau-talks-down-to-black-neighbors-experts-show-social-housing-only-option-for-true-affordability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/2024\/04\/24\/fwd-press-alert-ward-one-cm-brianne-nadeau-talks-down-to-black-neighbors-experts-show-social-housing-only-option-for-true-affordability\/","title":{"rendered":"[Press Alert] Ward One CM Brianne Nadeau “Talks Down” to Black Neighbors; Experts Show Social Housing Only Option for True Affordability"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Press Alert, info@savedcpublicland.org<\/a>
\nApril 24, 2024<\/p>\n

Black Neighbors of 1617 U Street Proffer Experts Who Show that DC’s “Affordable” Housing Is Out of Reach of Most Black DC Residents<\/span>
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\nWard One Councilmember Brianne Nadeau “Talks Down” to Ward One Residents at local ANC Meeting, Subsequently Protested<\/a><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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Washington, D.C.<\/i> — In 2021, Ward One Councilmember Brianne Nadeau moved an “11th hour” change to the DC Comprehensive Plan<\/b><\/a> that would provide for new luxury high-density construction on the 2-acres of public land at 1617 U Street. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Nadeau’s controversial map change had no public hearings, that is until January 2024, after an application was put forward by the Office of Planning<\/b><\/a> to ask the DC Zoning Commission to implement her changes on the DC Zone Map<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

If approved, new downtown sized construction (10+ stories) would be allowed “by-right” along this busy yet narrow section of the U Street corridor.\u00a0 New construction would also lead to the temporary (perhaps permanent) displacement of the existing homes of the 3D police station and Engine 9 fire station.<\/span><\/p>\n

The area around 1617 U Street (southern part of Adams Morgan, northern part of Dupont Circle) has seen tremendous displacement of our Black neighbors over the past ten years, and only about 100 Black residents remain in the affected census tract around the site.<\/span><\/p>\n

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One of the area’s remaining Black residents, Mr. Gregory Adams, organized with some of his neighbors and formed a party in opposition to the zoning changes now under review, Black Neighbors of 1617 U Street:<\/b><\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

“As the last black household on my block in a neighborhood of ever decreasing black households, it is imperative … [the city] … not enact policies that will worsen this problem.” — Gregory Adams<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n


\nDuring the zoning hearings it became apparent that neither the Office or Planning<\/a> nor CM Brianne Nadeau<\/a> paid much mind to the existing Black Neighbors around 1617 U Street and their concerns about being the last families to be displaced by the proposed luxury upzoning.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\nView Gregory Adams Asking Questions of the Office of Planning during the Zoning Hearings Here: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_jLKYM-tanU<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/div>\n

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DC Black Neighbors’ Experts Show Social Housing Only Real Option for True Affordability; Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) Is Out Of Reach for Most Black Residents<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mr. Adams and the Black Neighbors party formally put forward experts that have clearly shown that DC’s affordable housing (Inclusionary Zoning) is simply unaffordable for most Black DC residents due to the immense racial income gaps in the city (See expert testimony — here<\/a>, here<\/a>, here<\/a>).<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Experts point to an alternative to the failure that is Inclusionary Zoning (IZ), and that is the Green New Deal for Housing in DC, aka Social Housing<\/b><\/a>, especially on Public Land.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ward One Councilmember Brianne Nadeau Protested About 1617 U Street Luxury Upzoning<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

At a recent local Advisory Neighborhood Commission Meeting, Ward One residents chanted: “What do we want? — Social Housing; Where do we want it? 17th and U Streets.”<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Black Neighbors of 1617 U Street asked Ms. Nadeau pointedly:<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Gregory Adams:<\/b> “… Why you would recommend upzoning … \u00a0despite any outreach to Black neighbors… [and] why you support [the rezoning] without [displacement studies] being done.”<\/span><\/i>
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Nadeau’s response: “.<\/b>.. I wish people would stop with the narrative that upzoning displaces people because it’s just wrong… The people who live here now should not get to decide who else gets to move into the community.”<\/i><\/span><\/div>\n
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Councilmember Nadeau has so far turned down invitations to meet with Ward One neighbors and the Black Neighbors’ experts<\/b> to discuss in person the science and data showing that luxury upzoning has a thorough track record of substantially increasing adverse displacement pressures on Black DC neighborhoods.\u00a0 Over the past ten years, DC is one of the highest displacement numbers in the city (25% Black displacement since 2010).
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Press Alert, info@savedcpublicland.org April 24, 2024 Black Neighbors of 1617 U Street Proffer Experts Who Show that DC’s “Affordable” Housing Is Out of Reach of Most Black DC Residents Ward One Councilmember Brianne Nadeau “Talks Down” to Ward One Residents at local ANC Meeting, Subsequently Protested Washington, D.C. — In 2021, Ward One Councilmember Brianne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1078,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1617u","category-affordability","category-socialhousing","category-brianne"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/360_F_197999097_VYwwsuRefjF3OAr3JPMVJh6ZRhIM14SM.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/savedcpublicland.org\/the1617project\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}