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Michelle Rhee's Influence on DC Real Estate
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Housing Complex’s Lydia DePillis is back from vacation and already making bold statements!
In a post on the City Paper’s real estate blog, DePillis puts forth the idea that DC public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee is the most powerful person in DC real estate. Before you dismiss the idea out of hand, you should know that DePillis makes a fairly good case.
An excerpt from the post:
“…the Chancellors’ decisions like which schools are closed, which are renovated, and which principals go where can govern where current and prospective parents want to live. It also impacts the childless, since their home values go up if they live in a good school district.”
You can read the full post here.
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This article originally published at https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/michelle_rhees_influence_on_dc_real_estate/2390.
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