We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.

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Anonymous wrote:“Zoning” is just a law passed by society to achieve societal goals.

If you didn’t anticipate the risk of having to let more people into your neighborhood which may affect your sacred property value as artificial house scarcity is rolled back— well that’s your fault. Because big companies and the wealthy anticipated that risk. As did I when I bought my house. I priced that risk in.

Society needs more housing to make high demand urban areas accessible to all. That’s why we, as a society, will roll back zoning restrictions and allow more housing.

And those who live in the SFHs want to live in a SFH. They will leave town. DMV has plenty of nearby options. And guess what? Pandemic means I do not have to go to the office everyday. And guess who pays the taxes in this town-those who live in those large SFHs. DC has plenty of affordable housing. Check out zillow. The idea that DC is overly crowded is bizzare. DC has fewer people today than it did in 1950.

You can still live in a SFH. No one is proposing to demolish your house and replace it with apartments.

I do not want my SFH to be next to an apartment building. I want my SFH to be in a neighborhood of SFHs. Otherwise, I do not buy that SFH, and I promise you its market value will decrease dramatically with an apartment building next to it.

Then you need to move to Frederick or Ashburn. It’s market value will not decrease. If large SFHs are converted to duplexes and apartments, the market value of those large homes will go up. Supply and demand. But the average price of housing will come down.

You do realize that the outcome, either intentional or unintentional, is promote more investment in wealthy areas and contribute to ongoing disinvestment in poor areas?

I do think they need to improve lower income neighborhoods by investing in those schools, parks and recreation and give incentives to businesses to move there.

Businesses do not move anywhere without customers. Customers come from people buying homes who are priced out of more expensive areas. People buying those homes know they are taking a risk and hoping for the best. Most people don't like taking risks with their biggest asset. Therefore, high prices and limited supply in exclusive areas are good for the rest of the city. QED.

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Anonymous wrote:Upzoning is for developers, not people. How do you all not see that? It’s real estate 101.

Yup. +100

I also just don’t understand how people think there is an equity argument. No poor person will be able to afford a $1m unit in an AU Park triplex, which is what upcoming will deliver. And that unit will be purchased by a person who would have otherwise purchased in Petworth, Brightwood or Brookland.

So the outcome is likely to increase racial segregation and deprive other areas of the city from needed private (and public) investment.

it's a boondoggle, but the ANCS, the Council caved to the Mayor and the shrill GGW fanatics.

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Don’t look now, but we’ve got a thread about waiting for house prices to come down in which posters are (seriously) saying that they want their home real estate investment to not lose value.

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At least the NIMBY masks are off. “I got mine, F you” indeed.

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Anonymous wrote:At least the NIMBY masks are off. “I got mine, F you” indeed.

Get a life!

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Anonymous wrote:At least the NIMBY masks are off. “I got mine, F you” indeed.

I know I am really pissed that I can't afford a house on Foxhall. I wonder whether the City can provide affordable housing there.

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The GGW propagandists are so tiresome.

It's like they've been indoctrinated to memorize like 5 talking points and then just incessantly reciting them over and over and over. What's even more incredible is how naive they are about real estate, particularly how much they are basically foot soldiers for speculators seeking rent capture.

I hope at some point that they find some new talking points, because it is just so boring.

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Everyone likes our boring, leafy, walkable, green, low skyline city with its smattering of commercial hubs. Literally, everyone likes that about DC. If you don't, you go to a tastier city.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone likes our boring, leafy, walkable, green, low skyline city with its smattering of commercial hubs. Literally, everyone likes that about DC. If you don't, you go to a tastier city.

YIMBYs disagree. They believe the height limits are racist.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone likes our boring, leafy, walkable, green, low skyline city with its smattering of commercial hubs. Literally, everyone likes that about DC. If you don't, you go to a tastier city.

YIMBYs disagree. They believe the height limits are racist.

I think they believe the height limits are people saying “I got mine, F you”, instead of considering what’s good for everyone.

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone likes our boring, leafy, walkable, green, low skyline city with its smattering of commercial hubs. Literally, everyone likes that about DC. If you don't, you go to a tastier city.

YIMBYs disagree. They believe the height limits are racist.

I think they believe the height limits are people saying “I got mine, F you”, instead of considering what’s good for everyone.

What's good for everyone else is maintaining a city with a high quality of life and not turning it into an urban hellhole.

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Anonymous wrote:Exactly. Why not continue to invest in wards 7 and 8? Better housing - better retail - better schools. All of which is possible. Naval Yard and the area around the Wharf look great.

Looks great but isn't cheap. They have been skirting minimum percentage of required affordable housing. Just saw that there are some new condos at the Wharf that will be starting out with a $12 million dollar sticker price. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/05/04/12-million-penthouse-be-offered-wharf/

Glad we bought near the Wharf 10 years ago before Wharf/Navy Yard area started being developed. Couldn't afford to live here now.

Where did you move there from?

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone likes our boring, leafy, walkable, green, low skyline city with its smattering of commercial hubs. Literally, everyone likes that about DC. If you don't, you go to a tastier city.

YIMBYs disagree. They believe the height limits are racist.

I think they believe the height limits are people saying “I got mine, F you”, instead of considering what’s good for everyone.

If you can't afford to live in a certain part of town, then look elsewhere. You are NOT entitled to live wherever you want. Grow up!!

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone likes our boring, leafy, walkable, green, low skyline city with its smattering of commercial hubs. Literally, everyone likes that about DC. If you don't, you go to a tastier city.

YIMBYs disagree. They believe the height limits are racist.

That makes little sense. And it is one of the things that makes DC unique. Part and parcel of our heritage. If you made a list of top things that make DC, DC- - cherry blossom,.social Safeway, go go, monuments, low skyline,Smithsonian etc. Adding ANY high rises within DC dilutes our heritage.

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Anonymous wrote:What do you think all of the townhomes, pseudo townhomes, and condos are? That’s middle housing and DMV is an outlier that it is actually building it.

What you socialists forget though is the market. Many don’t want to live with shared walls and overcrowded streets, far from jobs. At least not at the minimum price point that these things can be built for. That’s why there is a lack of housing at an entry level.

That and starter homes are a terrible investment and for condos basically entrapment.

In other areas, when home prices exceed what the majority of the market can pay, developers are building smaller to meet the price point.

Again it’s the market. Not just zoning, which is relatively permissive when it comes to density around here.

Never mind you or anyone else can buy in Anacostia right now. Super affordable. The problem is everything else, like safety and schools. Not zoning.

"Single-family homes take up a lot of space in the District"


https://ggwash.org/view/71576/heres-how-much-of-dcs-housing-consists-of-single-family-homes

"Single-family homes take up a lot of space in the District"

Which turns out to be a good thing, because all the recent information points to the fact that people want single family homes right now. After the pandemic, fewer people want to live in all of those vibrant-mice-use-dense-upscale-glass-boxes.