{"id":8974,"date":"2017-11-15T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T18:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8974"},"modified":"2017-11-14T19:41:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T00:41:52","slug":"elrich-without-rent-control-purple-line-will-cause-ethnic-cleansing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8974","title":{"rendered":"Elrich: Without Rent Control, Purple Line Will Cause \u201cEthnic Cleansing\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Adam Pagnucco.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In response to a question about just cause eviction and rent control at the Progressive Neighbors County Executive forum, Council Member Marc Elrich stated that the Purple Line would cause \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d without a rent control law.\u00a0 Elrich said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I support rent stabilization and I think we need to be honest with ourselves about this.\u00a0 If we throw up our hands about this and say the market will determine the price of housing and the market alone will determine that, then we are going to wipe out neighborhood after neighborhood in Montgomery County.\u00a0 If you did that, then if you did not put rent stabilization around the Purple Line stops, for example, then the neighborhoods around the Purple Line will not continue to exist.\u00a0 They will be bought, they will be repurposed and they will go to other people.<\/p>\n<p>When we did the Long Branch plan, and Park and Planning came in and said we want to rezone all the existing housing in Long Branch, I accused the Planning Board of ethnic cleansing.\u00a0 And I said some people do it with the gun, you guys are doing it with the pen but the truth is those folks would be gone and they would be gone forever&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Elrich\u2019s remarks begin at the 2:29 mark of this video taken by Ryan Miner.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Progressive Neighbors MoCo County Executive Forum - Part 1\/4\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WH1-SdWEY_s?start=153&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Disclosure: Your author is a long-time supporter of the Purple Line and is a <a href=\"https:\/\/berlinerformontgomery.com\/our-team\/\">publicly listed supporter of Council Member Roger Berliner for Executive<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adam Pagnucco. In response to a question about just cause eviction and rent control at the Progressive Neighbors County Executive forum, Council Member Marc Elrich stated that the Purple Line would cause \u201cethnic cleansing\u201d without a rent control law.\u00a0 Elrich said: I support rent stabilization and I think we need to be honest with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/?p=8974\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Elrich: Without Rent Control, Purple Line Will Cause \u201cEthnic Cleansing\u201d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,84,37],"tags":[1545,1508,349,2082],"class_list":["post-8974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adam-pagnucco","category-marc-elrich","category-purple-line","tag-adam-pagnucco","tag-marc-elrich","tag-purple-line-2","tag-rent-control"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4mKJE-2kK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8974"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8984,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8974\/revisions\/8984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theseventhstate.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}