"Badger says Millennial, the capital-M term tossed about in media, is more a “code word for a particular kind of millennial.” That is, white, college-educated, upwardly-mobile ones. (Washingtonian does not capitalize the word millennial, for what it’s worth.)
Pendall and Badger pointed out that discussing millennials the way mainstream news organizations often do ignores disparities within the generation—creating fundamental issues with understanding how millennials hope to and will change cities like DC. Badger offered up the example of her own neighborhood: the at first budding, now booming H Street.
“We have this juxtaposition of millennials who are better off, who have college degrees, who’ve had the luxury of moving in,” she says. “They’re coexisting, not entirely harmoniously, with millennials of a different kind who are not going to be able to afford to continue living in the neighborhoods where their parents raised them.” Badger herself happens to be one of those college-educated, new-resident millennials...
“Can we have investment on H Street, or the 14th Street corridor, or U Street in ways that benefit the people who already live there?” Badger says. “This is the problem millennials need to solve as they remake cities.”"
Really good questions to think about
Related: Gentrification (one where it isn't a thing; and I think there was another)
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