The place once called "Chocolate City" may not be so chocolate anymore. The amount of African-Americans living in the District of Columbia is down 11 percent in the past 10 years. The census statistics showed the population had dropped 39,000 whereas the non- hispanic white population increased by 50,000 people. The city has been adding about 20,000 new residents in the last 10 years. The Post credits the change to the gentrification trend of the last 15 years; prices are becoming too expensive for the low income black population because wealthy property owners are buying up poor neighboorhoods and pushing out the native residents.
The city is becoming harder to live in for working class families; many of the jobs created over the past 10 years require a higher education. The only way to turn the trend around is to make jobs more readily availiabe for blacks. The concerns are that old time Washingtons will be displaced and not have a place to live. People in the article see the trend as hard to stop and that its just is a reality that people are going to have to face. The once proud predominantly black population in the city of D.C. is slipping away.
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