{"id":23,"date":"2020-12-13T15:50:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-13T15:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/?p=23"},"modified":"2020-12-15T10:35:22","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T10:35:22","slug":"dcs-comp-plan-vertical-redlining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/2020\/12\/13\/dcs-comp-plan-vertical-redlining\/","title":{"rendered":"DC’s Comp Plan & Vertical Redlining"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Bill B23-0736 Comprehensive Amendment Act of 2020 crafted by DC’s Office of Planning (OP) is in effect a “vertical redlining” bill which maybe more damaging to DC families in particular Black Families than the racial redlining which evolved hand in hand with urban renewal policies evolving out of the 1930s – 1980s.   As such, B23-736 should be killed in its tracks, because any potential good in the bill will be out weighted by the harm.  <\/span><\/p>\n

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“Redlining is the systematic denial of various services by federal government agencies, local governments, or the private sector either directly or through the selective raising of prices. This often manifested by placing strict criteria on certain goods that often disadvantaged poor and minority communities.[2][3] Prior to the Fair Housing Act of 1968, there were no specific laws that protected minority populations from discriminatory practices such as redlining. Businesses were therefore able to exploit these groups in order to increase their profits.[4] Redlining was utilized in the housing industry by mortgage companies to suppress minority populations from receiving home loans. This directly contributed to the spatial isolation of minority communities as they were denied a loan to move out of the neighborhood, while also being denied the funds to improve their current homes.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Redlining – Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n

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In the U.S. and particularly in DC, government policies and financial markets and tools are tightly bound.  Access financial tools and capital,  the nature of these tools and capital determine who can build and maintain wealth.   Wealth in turn is directly and correlated to nearly all outcomes in US society from health to education to safety.  On maps horizontally the US and DC tended to be segregated by race and other factors.  Directly and indirectly access to financial tools and capital are needed to build wealth.  Traditionally, access to good land and later land connected to housing, housing ownership and cheap secure capital determines who builds wealth.   Black families tend to be denied such access.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Bill B23-0736 is designed in a way which will reinstate the equivalent impacts redlining on Black Families similar to those in the 1930s – 70s.  This will primarily be accomplished via land use policies which increase neighborhood densities (up-FlUMing) and promote the production of rental housing particularly in Black neighborhoods (formerly as well).  The greater the density the harder for Black Families to access in a manner which builds wealth for them.<\/p>\n

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Traditionally working and middle class levels of wealth are built and maintained via home ownership, this can’t happen for DC’s Black families in DC if little or no single family for sale housing is being built.  And if the city’s financial incentives encourage the single family stock which is available to be converted to higher density rental and used for commercial purposes.<\/p>\n

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Up-FLUMing and land use shifts raises the commercial value land and therefore housing in a way which is disconnect from current market conditions, but future markets.  And because these future markets of more commercial in nature than residential, these future markets are more speculative even further driving up the cost of land and housing today.  So up-FLUMing as the impact of reducing the amount of housing available today.<\/p>\n

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Because the Black-White income and wealth gap is so large in DC and future markets are optimized White via gentrification policies, Blacks by in large can’t access the financial tools to in a manner which will allow them to own single family housing.  Therefore, they can’t built wealth and therefore improved health, education and safety outcomes.  So under current pay-to-play policies and future up-FLUMing even housing in Black neighborhoods are not available to Black Families, “vertical redlining”.<\/p>\n

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Attempting to fix Horizontal Redlining harms of yester year by Vertical Redlining public-private policies in the future is a pure “con”.    The only way this approach works is if we are willing to structure a city purposely through public policy where Black Families are relegated permanently to a second class status.  Which will be the primarily impact of Bill B23-0736 <\/span>Comprehensive Amendment Act of 2020.   The bill will only exacerbate the harm done by pay-to-play policies most associated with CM Jack Evan’s reign over the city Committee on Finance and Revenue over the last 20 years.  <\/span>Yes these polices periodically filled our city’s coffers, but so did King Cotton fill the nation’s coffers and wealth during between the 1830s and 1860s. <\/p>\n

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Kill the Bill and Start from scratch. <\/p>\n

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  Bill B23-0736 Comprehensive Amendment Act of 2020 crafted by DC’s Office of Planning (OP) is in effect a “vertical redlining” bill which maybe more damaging to DC families in particular Black Families than the racial redlining which evolved hand in hand with urban renewal policies evolving out of the 1930s – 1980s.   As such, B23-736 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dcfeedback.com\/whj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}