Former drug zone gives way to families

By Liz Farmer

Published October 25, 2012 4:00am ET

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Former drug zone gives way to families — This heat map shows increases in the white population in D.C. Red neighborhoods saw an increase of 20 percent or more, orange areas had increases of 5 to 19 percent, yellow areas had a change of 5 percent or less, light green areas had losses of 5 to 24 percent and dark green neighborhoods had losses of more than 25 percent. Click to see a larger version. (Jennifer Peebles/Examiner)

For decades, the Northeast D.C. neighborhoods of Trinidad and Carver Langston were synonymous with drugs and violent crime. Thanks to easy access to get-away routes out of the city, the residential area became a veritable war zone during the height of the city’s drug crisis in the 1990s.

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