For some observers, the widening gap created by gentrification in the capital of this democracy is a happy paradox imbued with the manifest promise of ‘the great American experiment’. For others, it is evidence of a failed experiment in city building, rife with systemic problems created by deleterious policies in a juggernaut economy whose beneficiaries disenfranchise races and classes, and discriminate against the powerless. Washington, DC has fast become a playground for the top quintiles of the economy and is losing its Black heritage in the process. Everyone agrees there are still two Washingtons, but if we become an economic and racial monoculture within the next generation, as we are on track to do, it will be at our peril.

➜ In Washington, DC, all eyes have been on Trump and Biden. But, what about the impact of gentrification? Published by Frame Magazine, 2021