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The sudden change in "hot" neighborhoods is that many of them are all at once.

When I came into Dupont/Logan (14th Street) eons ago to rehabilitate there was only Logan Circle, Adams Morgan and Capitol Hill that were rehabiltating. There were so few of us that we had to gather in certain neighborhoods for what little security we could have (and it was little). LeDroit Park, Logan North, Shaw, Columbia Heights and certainly Bloomingdale weren't on the horizon.

Today when I visit Eckington, Brookland, Petworth, Bunker Hill, and Michigan Park there are middle income renovations everywhere. In fact there are few neighborhoods WOR that aren't safe now for rehabilitation. My view is that all of Ward 5 is going to recover very fast (as it should- it was DC's middle income neighborhood).

I don't think new people understand what a difference it is that now the vast majority of the city is "hot" and middle-class livable. And these are the types people (unlike those in the human file cabinets) who will register and regularly vote, get involved in local affairs, and do the hard civic work of the city.

by Tom Coumaris on Jun 8, 2012 9:38 am • link • report