What do you think of YIMBYs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

That's an interesting definition of "here".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

And it didn't require a million dollars to live in Chevy Chase DC 5 years ago either. What is your point again?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

Total nonsense coming from the side that actually wants to control what other people do with their property.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

And it didn't require a million dollars to live in Chevy Chase DC 5 years ago either. What is your point again?

it does not take a million dollars to live in Chevy Chase DC today. One can rent an apartment right now for prices that are more affordable than the trendy neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

Total nonsense coming from the side that actually wants to control what other people do with their property.

So you would have no problem if I purchased the property next to yours and constructed a medical waste incinerator?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

Total nonsense coming from the side that actually wants to control what other people do with their property.

So you would have no problem if I purchased the property next to yours and constructed a medical waste incinerator?

Is this an example of reductio ad absurdum, or just a demonstration that the NIMBY PP thinks that apartment buildings and medical-waste incinerators are equally noxious to live next to?

[Anonymous]

Tearing down affordable, original homes or really cheap apartments and replacing that with $1m+ townhome communities, then slapping an "affordable housing" label on it because a fraction of units are actually offered to lower middle class residents (it is affordable housing, not poor housing) is really gentrification. It's removing the poors and middle class, and replacing with rich and lower middle class.

[Anonymous]

Same applies to increasing density in SFH neighborhoods. Removing affordable house, plopping mcmodern on it. adding accessory unit doesn't change what's happening

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tearing down affordable, original homes or really cheap apartments and replacing that with $1m+ townhome communities, then slapping an "affordable housing" label on it because a fraction of units are actually offered to lower middle class residents (it is affordable housing, not poor housing) is really gentrification. It's removing the poors and middle class, and replacing with rich and lower middle class.

Is that what's happening in Cleveland Park?

How about tearing down a small million-dollar teardown and replacing it with a large two-million-dollar McMansion (because the zoning doesn't allow a multi-unit building), what's that doing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

And it didn't require a million dollars to live in Chevy Chase DC 5 years ago either. What is your point again?

it does not take a million dollars to live in Chevy Chase DC today. One can rent an apartment right now for prices that are more affordable than the trendy neighborhoods.

Yes, they can. But not very many. There needs to be more.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tearing down affordable, original homes or really cheap apartments and replacing that with $1m+ townhome communities, then slapping an "affordable housing" label on it because a fraction of units are actually offered to lower middle class residents (it is affordable housing, not poor housing) is really gentrification. It's removing the poors and middle class, and replacing with rich and lower middle class.

Is that what's happening in Cleveland Park?

How about tearing down a small million-dollar teardown and replacing it with a large two-million-dollar McMansion (because the zoning doesn't allow a multi-unit building), what's that doing?

Cleveland Park is a historic district. Not a lot of teardowns there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

Bottom line is that it does not require 1 million dollars to live here, you can buy a house right now in Hyattsville or College Park at very affordable prices. Furthermore, a lot of people that work in our area actually choose to live in West Virginia by choice because they like it there.

The one defining feature of YIMBYs continues to be that belief that everyone wants what they want. Guess what, people can want different things and that is absolutely okay!

Total nonsense coming from the side that actually wants to control what other people do with their property.

So you would have no problem if I purchased the property next to yours and constructed a medical waste incinerator?

If zoning allowed for it, then sure. But zoning doesn't allow for it, so no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tearing down affordable, original homes or really cheap apartments and replacing that with $1m+ townhome communities, then slapping an "affordable housing" label on it because a fraction of units are actually offered to lower middle class residents (it is affordable housing, not poor housing) is really gentrification. It's removing the poors and middle class, and replacing with rich and lower middle class.

Is that what's happening in Cleveland Park?

How about tearing down a small million-dollar teardown and replacing it with a large two-million-dollar McMansion (because the zoning doesn't allow a multi-unit building), what's that doing?

Cleveland Park is a historic district. Not a lot of teardowns there.

Correct. Tell the top PP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

You can buy a three-bedroom house for $335,000 that is within 200 feet of the DC border, in Prince George's County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seriously.

Bottom line, we need more housing in DC and particularly affordable housing. It needs to go in everywhere before it will require more than a million dollars to live here and ALL of our frontline workers and first responders have to live in WVA.

You can buy a three-bedroom house for $335,000 that is within 200 feet of the DC border, in Prince George's County.

Do YIMBYS not include certain neighborhoods/counties in "the area"?