Nonprofit Quarterly, April 3, 2024, How To Preserve Existing Affordable Housing: The Value Of Human Scale
Between 2000 and 2013, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition found that DC had the greatest “intensity of gentrification” of any US city. During this period, the study also estimates that the city lost 20,000 Black residents. In 1957, DC became the first large US city to have a majority Black population; it lost this status in 2011. The loss of housing affordability is directly related to the city’s loss of Black residents.
