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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If this is going to continue to be more about housing and less about schools can this thread be moved to another forum.[/quote] The discuasion [i]has[/i] been about schools. This is just a closely related initiative to the state bill, and the combination of the two is really impactful. More housing in areas that don't have space for new schools and where schools are already at/above capacity is a school issue. Expecting schools to appear with increased density is magical thinking without a clear plan, and such a plan is unlikely due to the great expense and decades-long heel-dragging of the county that has allowed the overcrowding in the first place.[/quote] The housing will not spontaneously generate new students. It is true that it might redistribute existing students to over-capacity schools, although I think they would probably also be coming from over-capacity schools.[/quote] As has been discussed in this thread, that's more magical thinking that all (or even a majority) of the new housing will simply go to house those currently in the area.[/quote] It's certainly something that could be studied. But in the absence of data, it's just as much "magical thinking" to say that the housing will spontaneously generate new students as to say that it won't.[/quote] That would be a real shame if families with kids didn’t benefit from the increased housing. Are you saying the new housing would be geared towards young adults without kids or retirees? [b]Otherwise why wouldn’t it lead to more kids in MCPS?[/b] Families need housing too![/quote] Because families are doubling up in existing housing units.[/quote] This is the magical thinking that most of the new housing would be occupied by folks already living in the affected communities instead of folks moving in.[/quote] Families doubling up is not magical thinking, it's fact.[/quote] Why are they doubling up and how will expensive new units help them? I think it’s far more likely that sone of the new housing will attract current DC residents who often move to the suburbs once their kids are school aged (like we did).[/quote] They are doubling up because housing is expensive. Housing will be less expensive when there is more housing and also when there is more specifically affordable housing (which is a goal of the legislation). https://thedailyrecord.com/2024/03/18/md-house-passes-moores-renter-protections-proposal/[/quote] but there is sufficient housing now just not an unused glut required to drive down prices[/quote] :shock: [/quote] Why so shocked? Do you need us to send you links of available places?[/quote] Remember recently when there were eggs available to buy in the supermarket, but they were really expensive, because there was a shortage of eggs? https://www.newsweek.com/america-egg-shortage-about-get-whole-lot-worse-1777534[/quote] Did egg producers also collude to inflate prices or was that just the big corporate landlords?[/quote]
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