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    730DC
    @730_DC
    Jul 31, 2019
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    730DC
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    Aug 26, 2020
    THREAD/ Since 'Columbia Heights' is uh, trending nationally, this seems like a good time to talk about Columbia Heights the neighborhood - its history, and how it's situated in the context of neighborhood change and gentrification in DC
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    730DC
    @730_DC
    Aug 26, 2020
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    Columbia Heights has a tendency to confound typical frameworks around gentrification. One example in microcosm: from the outside this building right by the metro looks like any other nouveau-yuppie fare - it's actually 100% permanent supportive housing for the formerly homeless.
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    730DC
    @730_DC
    Sep 6, 2019
    STOP talking shit about DC neighborhoods. U St. is HISTORIC Columbia Heights is VIBRANT H Street is HIP 16th St. Heights is DIVERSE Navy Yard Takoma has HIPPIES
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    730DC
    @730_DC
    Aug 26, 2020
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    It's maybe too generous to call Columbia Heights "stably integrated," but unlike many adjacent neighborhoods, every major racial and ethnic group in DC comprises at least 10% of the population there, and none of them constitute a majority. That's far rarer than it should be.
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    730DC
    @730_DC
    Jun 1, 2020
    Hey have you seen your own website
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    730DC
    @730_DC
    Aug 26, 2020
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    Units are at risk of losing subsidy, and displacement of residents and businesses still occurred. But to put Columbia Heights and, say, Navy Yard in the same sentence does a disservice to that grassroots work & the residents of affordable housing that still very much live there.
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    730DC
    @730_DC
    Aug 26, 2020
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    Worth mentioning that Columbia Heights is arguably the epicenter of renter organizing right now - at least 2 large active rent strikes there, the Metro plaza hosted a @RentControlDC rally, and Columbia Rd is home to frequent TOPA-organizers of @ledcmetro
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    DC Tenants Union
    @DCTenantsUnion
    Jul 25, 2020
    First March arrives to Columbia Heights! All these Landlords GOTTA GO!!
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    Tammy Gordon
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    Dec 21, 2023
    If you’re headed to fly out of DCA or drop off and pick anyone up at DCA, I strongly urge you to take metro instead. It is gridlock, and the cars are backed up all the way out onto the parkway. Assume there is no parking at the airport and it’s not moving to get in.
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    Feb 23, 2024
    As we wrote in this morning's newsletter: The DCist team's coverage of the DMV is invaluable and essential to knowing this city, and we’re all better off for their work—especially as the local news landscape evaporates. We have especially relied on DCist to do what we do.
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    @WeMakeWAMU
    Feb 23, 2024
    This morning, @wamu885 management informed us they are laying off 15 vital people from our organization. These individuals are the lifeblood of our journalism. Our hearts are broken. We can’t believe we are losing our colleagues and friends.
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    730DC
    @730_DC
    Jun 1, 2020
    Oh no, how can we go on without DC institutions like [checks notes] the Hard Rock Cafe
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    HARLAN HILL 🇺🇸 ✝️
    @Harlan
    Jun 1, 2020
    Washington, DC is on edge tonight. It took decades to rebuild downtown DC to make it a safe place to earn a living. It took decades to rebuild downtown DC to make it a safe place for millions of Americans to bring their families on vacation. We could lose it so easily.
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    730DC
    @730_DC
    Aug 26, 2020
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    There's a reason 14th and Irving looks and feels very different than 14th and P. Columbia Heights has a bunch of flipped houses, but also the highest neighborhood concentration of subsidized affordable housing west of the Anacostia. (public.tableau.com/profile/travis…) h/t @allinsea
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    District of Columbia, Income-Restricted Affordable Housing by ANC
    District of Columbia, Income-Restricted Affordable Housing by ANC
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    730DC
    @730_DC
    Aug 26, 2020
    Replying to @730_DC
    Though there are definitely 'sectors' of Columbia Heights where different socioeconomic groups tend to cluster, you also see totally gonzo-expensive condos next to public housing. This extends to commerce, too - Bad Saint and IHOP are only 3ish blocks from each other
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    @730_DC
    May 6, 2020
    It's surprisingly irresponsible for DC to have released that "cases by neighborhood" map without the context that: - These neighborhood boundaries are arbitrary and don't contain equal numbers of people - This is basically just a population density map