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It is September 29th. Yeah. We are at Art All Night in Mount Pleasant. 2023. Could you tell us your name?

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I'm Hannah. Hannah, could you tell us about your relationship to Mount Pleasant? Sure, I live here at Mount Pleasant.

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I've lived here for not a very long time, just since last May, but I am from DC. I was born and raised here, but I yeah, I'm new to Mount Pleasant.

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And, okay, I'm curious, where were you raised in DC? In Tenleytown. Oh, in Tenleytown, okay. Not very far away.

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That's where I am now, so. Okay. So you've been here since May? Last May. Last May of 2022.

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Yeah. And are there any, what sort of things brought you to this neighborhood? Well, my partner already lived here, so I was already spending time over here.

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And we were looking for a place to live and we just happened to come across a for rent sign outside of a house really close to where we are now and so we called the number and it ended up working out.

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That's what got us here. Do you have any favorite things about the neighborhood? Yes, so many things. First of all, I always see so many

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friends everywhere I go. And the longer that I'm here, the more people that I meet. And So everywhere that I go in the

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neighborhood, I'm seeing people that I'm familiar with or have seen before, am friendly with and becoming more friendly with. It's easy to meet up with my friends. There's always delicious food around.

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And we're surrounded by forest, So it's amazing to be able to just walk into the forest any time. Yeah, it's terrific. Yeah.

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And have you seen any changes in this period of time? Well, my time living in Mount Pleasant is very short. So the only changes that I've seen

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is a few businesses close, a few businesses open. So that's all I've personally witnessed. Yeah. And had you, growing up in this

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city, had impressions of the neighborhood? Honestly, no. Like my growing up in Tenleytown, my world was very much over there and down Wisconsin Avenue and then a little bit into DuPont Circle and occasionally across the city but I almost never

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came over here to Mount Pleasant. Interesting. Do you have any things now that you're in the neighborhood, do you have any kind of ideas as to what you would like the future of the

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neighborhood to be like? Yes, well I think that the neighborhood, and my hope for the neighborhood is that it remains an affordable place to live so that the people that live here now can remain.

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Yeah, I hope that we can find a way to do that because, you know, it's limited housing in this neighborhood. We can't really build anything

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else, right? And so how can we make it, how can we keep it affordable? How can we keep it, you know, I know it's changed a lot and I wasn't here for that, but how can we stop it from evolving out of itself, you know?

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Because it's a beautiful ecosystem and it is a delicate ecosystem and yeah we need affordable housing. I 100% agree. Thank you so much.

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Yeah. I appreciate your taking the time. Yeah. Cool.