Saw it with my own eyes a few weeks ago. Surprised it made the news but my daughter did say that many of the students (her friends prolly) are tired of seeing this on their campus.

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/howard-university-students-say-new-neighbors-have-been-using-the-campus-like-it-s-a-dog-park

By Tisha Lewis, FOX 5 DC
Posted Apr 18 2019 04:57PM EDT

Video Posted Apr 18 2019 05:19PM EDT

Updated Apr 18 2019 05:46PM EDT

WASHINGTON (FOX 5 DC) - Gentrification, disrespect and disregard is the cocktail some Howard University students say is fueling some area residents to flood their campus in Northwest D.C.

As first reported by DCist, students say neighbors are walking their dogs, hosting picnics and more at the historically black college and university — and now the story is heating up on social media.

The university has been silent so far about its official stance in regard to this situation, but students have plenty to say — accusing neighboring residents of using “The Yard,” which is the heartbeat of Howard's campus, as an outdoor gym or worse — dog park.

In fact, in recent weeks, some students say they have taken matters into their own hands and confronted area residents they deem to be disrespecting the campus.

Howard University is a private school, although, parts of its campus are intertwined with the District. Several neighborhoods surrounding Howard have undergone recent redevelopment, which has attracted new, wealthy residents — residents some students say have shown disregard for “The Yard’s” historical significance.

“‘The Yard’ is for the students and although everyone loves pets, I feel like it's disrespectful to have the pets just running around, especially when there are several parks around here,” said Malakhi Briggs, a sophomore at Howard. “If they come on ‘The Yard’ and they're just walking through, I don't necessarily have a problem with that, but I still feel like there are other ways to get around D.C. without having to cut through a college campus.”

Sean Grubbs-Robishaw lives in the Bloomingdale neighborhood and admits to cutting through “The Yard” with his dog to quickly get to the nearby McMillan Reservoir.

"So, they're in part of D.C. so they have to work within D.C. If they don't want to be within D.C. then they can move the campus. I think we just need to work together and I don't think it should be a he or there or here… It’s our community and that's how it should be,” said Grubbs-Robishaw.

On Thursday, FOX 5 visited “The Yard” and didn’t see any non-students on campus. In fact, the only dog walker we saw appeared to be a student.

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Everything looks like Oprah kissing Harvey Weinstein these days

now my alma mater has been turned into a dog park

class shit.

It got thrown in my face when I went to college in New England. I was amazed at all these white people who lived nearby walking their dogs through our school.

This is white people kust doing what they do. However, Howard should put up signs stating that they don't want dog walkers on campus.

how do you live in a police state? that sh*t isn't cute, it takes the joy out of
everything.

*Not the whole school, obviously. And not all at once. Would be dope if they had the cash to open a campus in one of those cities and start buying up land while it's relatively cheap.

Howard 2.0, basically. Learn from the mistakes of the past and prepare for the eventual gentrification with another urban location for the school.

Now they can have that shit.

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I would hire a bunch of dog walkers to walk and have the dogs shit all over their yards and doorstep.


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Calling the cops on them, getting their cars towed if it's even 1/16th over the line, assuming the dog walkers are there to steal or rob students, etc.

https://shelterforce.org/2014/05/23/7_policies_that_could_prevent_gentrification/
To date, no one in Boston has advanced a comprehensive strategy to combat gentrification in at-risk neighborhoods such as Roxbury.

“Gentrification” can mean different things for different people, including new local investment, an increase in average incomes, rising home prices or rents, a different occupational mix, higher educational level, and/or a new race/ethnicity mix. I use gentrification to refer to revitalization and reinvestment causing a relatively sharp increase in rents and home values in low- and moderate-income urban neighborhoods resulting in actual or imminent displacement of residents.

To the extent that existing residents can reap the benefits of rising home values, educational levels and incomes; new small business and job opportunities; and improved credit scores and lower loan delinquency rates—that’s not gentrification, it’s just good community development.

It is important to agree upon a key indicator that measures when a neighborhood is at risk to the forces of gentrification and can serve as a “trigger” for investment of resources designed to prevent or mitigate displacement. I like economist Daniel Hartley’s key indicator: a neighborhood is gentrifying if it is located in the central city of a metropolitan area and it goes from being in the bottom half of the distribution of home prices in the metropolitan area to the top half. By that standard, since 1999, a quarter of Boston’s residents have experienced gentrification of their neighborhood, making ours the fastest gentrifying city in the U.S.

Roxbury is poised to suffer the effects of gentrification. Housing prices are rising significantly. The 2010 census shows that, after decades of flat population and housing growth, since 2000 Roxbury added 2,200 new housing units and 6,970 new residents, including 4,400 more white residents. A post-gentrification Roxbury could lose almost 10,000 African-American and Latino households, and gain around 8,100 white households. Roxbury would be a majority white neighborhood.

The following are seven policy initiatives drawn from recent studies and articles that could be part of a community stabilization agenda using smart growth and equitable investments in order to prevent or mitigate gentrification in Roxbury and other at-risk neighborhoods in Boston.

Policy 1: Aggressively build middle-income housing. Thousands of middle-income households today cannot afford to rent or buy in Roxbury. New construction home prices are at $550,000, requiring an income of $150,000 to buy. The city is selling its stock of small vacant lots to developers to build middle-income housing, but that’s not nearly enough to prevent displacement. We need a much more aggressive middle-income housing production program including investment of city subsidies. The city should resist calls to devote all of the city’s housing resources in low-income housing production.

Policy 2: Reduce or freeze property taxes to protect long-time residents. Major cities are considering tax programs to help retain long-time homeowners in at-risk neighborhoods. In Boston, the city council recently passed a bill allowing homeowners whose taxes have grown by 10 percent or more to defer property tax payments until they sell. Approval of the state legislature is required.

Policy 3: Protect senior homeowners. In Boston, a major concern is that low- and moderate-income seniors are choosing to sell because they cannot afford rising property taxes in gentrifying neighborhoods and cannot afford the upkeep on their homes. The city should dramatically increase funding for existing senior home repair programs, and these programs should prioritize gentrifying neighborhoods. The existing property tax deferral available for Boston seniors with incomes under $55,000 should be vigorously marketed in gentrifying neighborhoods. Seniors owning and living in 2- and 3-family homes in at-risk areas should be rewarded for keeping rents affordable.

Policy 4: Prohibit large-scale luxury development in at-risk neighborhoods. The single biggest cause of displacement is large-scale, high-cost housing development. Boston should accordingly promote small- and medium-scale, mixed-income development in at-risk neighborhoods like Roxbury, and forbid market-rate, large-scale development.

Policy 5: Create a stabilization voucher. Some community development advocates propose that the federal government create a new type of housing voucher, to be awarded to long-time residents of low-income communities to help them stay when gentrification poses a risk. I call this a stabilization voucher, because it retains low-income residents to help stabilize communities by avoiding displacement.

Policy 6: Change the fair housing rules. In order to provide federal resources disproportionately in at-risk majority-minority neighborhoods, such as the stabilization voucher described above, the fair housing rules need to be re-written. Traditional fair housing rules can discourage equitable investment in at-risk neighborhoods, based on policies opposing concentrations of poverty and favoring relocation to suburban “opportunity communities.” Fair housing instead should affirmatively promote equitable investment in emerging urban opportunity communities—the neighborhoods of color at-risk of gentrification.

Policy 7: Production! According to the Metro Area Planning Council, we have to build 14,000 units a year in order to meet the demand for housing in metro Boston. However, actual annual production has ranged from 4,000 to 9,000 units. In the long term, the only way to meet demand and stop gentrification is to make it much easier to build more housing in Boston and the region. Even new luxury housing will help meet this goal, but these developments should be confined to Boston’s high-cost ghettos—Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Fenway, the Seaport and downtown (after carving out a buffer zone protecting Chinatown).

Finally, apart from the policy discussion, the gentrification conversation has to be framed around the underlying issues of power and race that created inequitable development here and make gentrification possible. Roxbury has to own a vision and strategy for community stabilization that changes the balance of power and transfers equity to tenants, homeowners and businesses.

This post is an excerpt from Seven Policies That Could Prevent Roxbury’s Gentrification from Nuestra Comunidad Development Corporation.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

As is ATL, NYC, and other large cities around the country.

Bawdamore next, shor! Taking longer than some would have thought but it's about to go down.

On HU it's all good until they (students and alumni) can't secure the Mickey D's parking lot during homecoming as tradition holds.

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...buy houses in gentrifying or soon-to-gentrify areas, in-general.

It's too late for DC, NYC and SF, and it seems like the same mistakes are being made RIGHT NOW is cities like Baltimore, Detroit, Richmond, Philly, etc.

White folks with money are not waiting for neighborhoods to become 'cool' or for crime to completely disappear. They are ahead of the game in this aspect, and the biggest issue seems to be the mindset of middle-class black people. Not sure about other non-white peple and their perspectives on this.

I have many friends who earn between $50k-120k and when I purchased my home in DC, they scoffed at me.

Why would you buy there?
Why are you in such a rush to own a home?
What if you move?

Now, 12 years later, those same middle income blacks are begging to pay white people for a place to live. I didn't make much money when I purchased my home. I made LOTS of mistakes.

But I and a few others in DC, hunkered down and saved our pennies, participated in EVERY homebuying program so that we could have a place to live.

I really don't understand why black middle income folks won't jump into owning something, no matter how small. There is no reason for Howard University to be surrounded by white folks. Black students had AMPLE opportunity to own in that area.

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There's PLENTY of well-educated, good income earners in the DC area who could have bought there and strengthened neighborhoods, but they all moved to Upper Marlboro, Bowie, Columbia, or (eghk) Waldorf as soon as they got out of school or came back. But these are the people that will cry about how "they" took DC. They just didn't want to live next to niggas when DC wasn't so hot or wanted to be closer to the Jack and Jill set, or wanted a nicer yard. Black folk are very aspirational in that way. By the time the patronage was cleaned up and DC was open for business again and they wanted to move back, they were priced out. It happens in any city with a strong Black middle class. I see it happening in Atlanta (where I did the same damn thing leaving Baltimore) right now.

Streets won't let me chill.

if you are from the hood or just want to be in a quiet space with a larger lot who am I to say you are wrong for leaving?

The problem with all of this is the only way gentrification really works is if THEY move in.

We can sit and hold but until THEY move in the value is going to remain lower than most.

It’s fucked up.

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>The problem with all of this is the only way gentrification
>really works is if THEY move in.
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>We can sit and hold but until THEY move in the value is going
>to remain lower than most.
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>It’s fucked up.

Black folk have largely been the catalyst for turning that neighborhood around. It can be done if there's critical mass

Streets won't let me chill.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

I stand corrected

If we can get more folks like him to invest in urban areas we can have more “control” over affordable housing.

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the rest of the city, especially old fourth ward, is basically lost to gentrification that has pushed black people into dekalb, clayton county and gwinnett

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

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If it’s true it could be a valuable case study

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but will take on the headache of inflated rents, luxury cars and the cost to maintain them, student loans, etc...


The turn right around and scream about gentrification tactics and how the system is unfair.

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in the great recession and now you're blaming them for not stopping gentrification? niggas truly can't catch a break.

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

The market crashed in 2008. DC home prices hit rock bottom. If you had at least $5-$10k, a 700 credit score and job for 6 months, you could have purchased at least a 2 bedroom in DC for $220-$250k.

I personally know Howard grads who preferred to go to the Caribbean than purchase a home. Now almost 11 years later, they are on social media complaining that DC priced them out.

Now, I agree that home ownership should not dictate who has access to the city. However, the bad loan era was from 1998-2008. Folks still had time to figure their finances out and own a piece of DC.

The writing was on the wall.

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America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

have you decided to buy up blocks of homes to stop gentrification?

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

I think it is a good balance of resources, prevention of blight and reducing the carbon footprint by allowing more walkable and healthier urban areas. I can now drive, bus or bike to two grocery stores with healthy food. I have access to clean parks and police presence has increased in my neighborhood so I can walk my kid to school safely.

I personally have done my part as a black home owner, who still lives in my home, pays taxes, sends my kid to a local school and I am civically engaged.

If I rent, I will even rent to people with vouchers, which most landlords won't do.

I feel no guilt for my role in preserving black DC.

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Do you see no problem with the massive disinvestment in already poor communities in Baltimore?

America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.

>I feel no guilt for my role in preserving black DC.

The only way to solve this problem is for black folks to get skin in the game and actually INVEST in the communities they claim to care about.

but everyone else?

Luckily I didn’t buy before the bubble but after? Sheeeit. That’s the perfect time.

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80 - 100 year old row houses around Howard. If they were going to buy in the city, it would be up in Brookland - bigger, standalone homes with a more suburbany feel. Plus, those types were leery of sending their kids to DC public schools. And alot of the area around Howard was still Hood until about 12 - 15 years ago.

The white people moving in often don't even plan on having kids, or they feel like they have the means to up and move anywhere once their children get to school age. Black professionals often feel like we have limited places we can just suddenly go to if we'd like. That all combines to make PG County very desirable. in the medium run.

I don't judge Black professionals who chose Upper Marlboro or Bowie over Shaw. They were doing whet they thought was best at the time.

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It’s still a tricky subject because the only way to win is for white people to buy shit up while you hold onto your property.

Folks also can’t be in the burbs complaining about gentrification in hoods.

Reminds me of back home when we lost our Black VFW due to mismanagement and unpaid taxes. Everyone was on FB dogging local folks out and their response was .. “but you moved away”

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you don't need a dog.

...on OTHER people's property.

In my neighborhood almost every house has a good-sized yard. The neighbors across the street stay walking their German Shepherd around the neighborhood to take shits tho.

Seems like most dog owners are entitled assholes.

Now that it's warm, I gotta deal with barking dogs at 1AM and 5AM. If it continues, I'm gonna figure out how to make an electronic dog whistle and just leave that shit on all the time whenever I'm not home. Dead-serious.

They got rid of his ass.

It worked while he was there tho.

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im def using this lol

Dog Whistle to Train Your Dog by Wei Wei

That’s the one one I used ^^^^

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Makes the dog owner think you are just looking out for their dog's safety when really you are just trying to scare them off of your lawn.

>...on OTHER people's property.
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>In my neighborhood almost every house has a good-sized yard.
>The neighbors across the street stay walking their German
>Shepherd around the neighborhood to take shits tho.
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>Seems like most dog owners are entitled assholes.
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>Now that it's warm, I gotta deal with barking dogs at 1AM and
>5AM. If it continues, I'm gonna figure out how to make an
>electronic dog whistle and just leave that shit on all the
>time whenever I'm not home. Dead-serious.


its crazy because when I was in the DC/VA area 20+ years ago that area was mostly hood we used to go a strip club up there on Georgia Ave I can't remember the name lol

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