There is no housing crisis in MoCo or most of the DMV for that matter

[Anonymous]

Sick and tired of the narrative that there is some kind of housing crisis in the region, therefore we need to completely upend our way of life to accommodate people who can't afford to live here. What housing crisis? Are there thousands and thousands of people living in the streets? All I hear is more like whining they people cannot live wherever they want cheaply, including the most expensive and most dense areas of the country. Where in the Constitution is it say you have an inalienable right to have cheap housing in the most desirable areas of the country? So you can't afford to live in the DMV? You're always free to live elsewhere in this giant country where housing is more affordable. Really tired about hearing all of the complaining over a manufactured crisis that doesn't even exist.

[Anonymous]

Also, the earth is flat.

[Anonymous]

Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sick and tired of the narrative that there is some kind of housing crisis in the region, therefore we need to completely upend our way of life to accommodate people who can't afford to live here. What housing crisis? Are there thousands and thousands of people living in the streets? All I hear is more like whining they people cannot live wherever they want cheaply, including the most expensive and most dense areas of the country. Where in the Constitution is it say you have an inalienable right to have cheap housing in the most desirable areas of the country? So you can't afford to live in the DMV? You're always free to live elsewhere in this giant country where housing is more affordable. Really tired about hearing all of the complaining over a manufactured crisis that doesn't even exist.

You’ll get no replies for a while because they have to gather their bumper sticker talking points from Facebook.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sick and tired of the narrative that there is some kind of housing crisis in the region, therefore we need to completely upend our way of life to accommodate people who can't afford to live here. What housing crisis? Are there thousands and thousands of people living in the streets? All I hear is more like whining they people cannot live wherever they want cheaply, including the most expensive and most dense areas of the country. Where in the Constitution is it say you have an inalienable right to have cheap housing in the most desirable areas of the country? So you can't afford to live in the DMV? You're always free to live elsewhere in this giant country where housing is more affordable. Really tired about hearing all of the complaining over a manufactured crisis that doesn't even exist.

You’ll get no replies for a while because they have to gather their bumper sticker talking points from Facebook.

Much truth to the OP here. First, DMV is no longer growing rapidly. Second, with huge amounts of underutilized office and retail spaces, there is plenty of real estate to build more housing without negatively affecting the neighborhoods in the region.

[Anonymous]

Signed, a boomer that got their housing for 3 blueberries back in 1940 from a Sears catalog. Go talk to young people, even high earners, on how difficult it is to buy a house nowadays.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Signed, a boomer that got their housing for 3 blueberries back in 1940 from a Sears catalog. Go talk to young people, even high earners, on how difficult it is to buy a house nowadays.

No Boomer was buying a house in 1940, on grounds that no Boomer was even born yet in 1940.

[Anonymous]

^boomer is a state of mind, not an age range. You can be a 30 year old boomer

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Signed, a boomer that got their housing for 3 blueberries back in 1940 from a Sears catalog. Go talk to young people, even high earners, on how difficult it is to buy a house nowadays.

Ok sure it's tough to buy a sfh, but that's not what they're trying to change all of the codes to build. There will be even fewer sfh under these policies. Is there really a shortage of apartments?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^boomer is a state of mind, not an age range. You can be a 30 year old boomer

No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^boomer is a state of mind, not an age range. You can be a 30 year old boomer

How convenient.

[Anonymous]

Marc Elrich, is that you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Signed, a boomer that got their housing for 3 blueberries back in 1940 from a Sears catalog. Go talk to young people, even high earners, on how difficult it is to buy a house nowadays.

Ok sure it's tough to buy a sfh, but that's not what they're trying to change all of the codes to build. There will be even fewer sfh under these policies. Is there really a shortage of apartments?

There does seem to be a mismatch. People want smaller single family starter homes. They are knocking down the old small SFH homes to build big houses that take up the whole lot, and then also building mixed use luxury apartments. Lots being built, just not what young families want. I guess in theory the boomers can sell their old houses to move to those apartments — some do. I’ve seen lots of decent older homes in my neighborhood be knocked down for developers — the incentives are all wrong for people to be able to buy the older housing stock. Years ago there was an article on maybe WaPo about neighbors that bought a house on their street and rehabbed it so the developers would not overbuild it, and explaining the economics of why that doesn’t really work.

[Anonymous]

Its all a tube of toothpaste. You want low wage workers so you can get a burger for under $10? Well you either need to build enough cheap or subsidized housing for them, or deal with 270/495/most other roads being jammed up with drive-till-you-qualifiers coming to make your sandwich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Signed, a boomer that got their housing for 3 blueberries back in 1940 from a Sears catalog. Go talk to young people, even high earners, on how difficult it is to buy a house nowadays.

Hahahah nope. Millennial here. Scrimped and pinched pennies to save for a house. Had $80k in student loan debt I paid off and zero help from parents. Try again. We settled for a neighborhood we could afford to get on the property ladder. We didn't demand to immediately live in Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Palisades, downtown DC, Arlington, etc. because we know we are not entitled to live wherever we want.