In the District, gentrification means widespread displacement, report says
“In most American cities, gentrification has not pushed low-income residents out of the city they call home, according to a new study. But Washington, D.C., is not most cities. In the District, low-income residents are being pushed out of neighborhoods at some of the highest rates in the country, according to the Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity, which sought to track demographic and economic changes in neighborhoods in the 50 largest U.S. cities from 2000 to 2016.”