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The article references a study that says DC has the most intense gentrification of any U.S. city. I know we have gentrification on steroids, and it's generally a good thing. Viewed broadly, DC still has an excessively high percentage of the region's low-income population. If we've learned anything over the past 50 years, it is that big concentrations of welfare populations breed trouble. That was one of the core mistakes of the Great Society wave of housing projects, which created Petri dishes for disfunction. We are still dismantling that mistake.

This depends on the culture. Unintended pregnancy and maternal mortality rates are significantly higher in Washington, DC than in the rest of the US. According to research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention published in 2014, maternal mortality rates in DC are nearly twice the US average, at 41 deaths per 100,000 births. And that is from https://www.plannedparenthood.org/planned-parenthood-metropolitan-washington-dc/blog/access-to-abortion-and-dc-statehood-are-the-same-fight

DC Has Highest Percentage of Food Stamp Recipients - https://www.newsmax.com/us/washington-dc-highest-food-stamp/2015/01/17/id/619202/

DC Has a Bigger Welfare State than Any European Country besides Denmark - https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/dc-has-bigger-welfare-state-any-european-country-besides-denmark

In fiscal 2015, the District of Columbia sent the fewest people into the military, - https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/lifestyle/where-do-military-recruits-come-from-not-the-district/2229/

If the goal is to assist the welfare population in moving out of disastrous neighborhoods, fine … but don't move them and then reconcentrate them in what becomes essentially a new project, albeit one in a swankier neighborhood. That won't work.

Liberals are at war with God and His word, and thus reject that man is sinful by nature, and go about indoctrinating a culture with their victim-entitlement mentality, which excludes mercy and grace towards true victims, with its incentive of gratitude toward betterment, and instead it makes welfare a "right," as a form of justice with liberals being the self-proclaimed saviors of those oppressed by those to earned benefits by obedience to God's principles.

Thus these liberals think that changing things like housing will not change those within the culture that they have fostered, and sinful man often chooses.

I know we have gentrification on steroids, and it's generally a good thing.

Economically gentrification can offer improvement, but socially it does not in my experience in a populous section of Central Americans (mostly: I am one of the few who are not). You have a friendly humble people, who are receptive to the gospel of Christ, and who love children and get along very well overall as a social (but not social warrior) community, and you lure in a culture of young people (who used to be called "Yuppies") that overall do not even try to interact with the rest of neighbor, and have dogs instead of kids, and often will display indifference or animosity toward the gospel message (this tells a lot about a culture), and tend to be overall far more intolerant and conceited. But if the friendly "live and let live" Central Americans were raised as the Yuppies were in their culture than they would be like them. And actually can become like them as they become established (this is MA, not MI).

All DC statistics are skewed by the very small size of the District proper. The Combined Metropolitan Statistical Area (the Washington & Baltimore MSA's combined) has nearly 10 million people. DC proper has been growing in recent years and is now just under 700,000 people (47 percent black; 45 percent white), so DC itself constitutes only about seven percent of the metro area. Fairfax, Montgomery and Prince Georges Counties are all bigger than DC. This is due to the fact that the size of the District is fixed by the Constitution. DC cannot grow and therefore has never annexed heavily urbanized, close-in suburbs that, anywhere else, would have long since been incorporated into the city.

If you look at the metro area as a whole, DC's social statistics look much more normal, aside from being ridiculously affluent; seven of the ten wealthiest counties in the U.S. are DC bedroom communities. If you look at the District in isolation, however, things get a big squirrely. DC has a bipolar income distribution, heavily skewed at both ends. We still have an excessively large share of the region's low income population. Gentrification is shrinking that, but we've still got a long way to go.