Potomac needs multi family housing

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm talking about apartments, rent controlled and affordable housing needs to be a priority in that town

Why exactly does Potomac NEED multi-family housing? Why do you believe affordable housing should be a priority in this particular area?

Because it is not already there is not an acceptable answer

But that is their answer. That’s what they want. No matter how silly it may be as a practical matter, and no matter how in tension with other priorities like anti-sprawl, the highest priority of low income housing advocates is that such housing must be in *every* neighborhood, and the whiter and richer an area is, the more important that it be diversified. Every knee must bow.

[Anonymous]

Then take it up with HOC. Do you even know who builds and runs subsidized housing in Montgomery County? SMH with random, uneducated statements for click bait.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then take it up with HOC. Do you even know who builds and runs subsidized housing in Montgomery County? SMH with random, uneducated statements for click bait.

That's par for the course for DCUM

[Anonymous]

The OP apparently doesn’t know that Quarry Springs exists. Even though it’s as big and gaudy as the Mormon temple. You absolutely cannot miss it… unless you’re someone who just likes talking about places you’ve never been.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess I don't really understand all of the drama surrounding affordable housing. I would love to live in San Diego or Manhattan, but I can't afford it. So I ended up living somewhere that is more affordable. And despite their best efforts to increase multi family housing, these areas remain very expensive.

Absolutely. It's not like affluent people in the DC need retail workers, child care workers, repair workers, grocery workers, home health workers, delivery workers, restaurant workers, landscaping workers, cleaning workers, garbage workers, or construction workers. Or even teachers, police officers, or firefighters. So much drama about these non-affluent people needing a place to live in the DC area, when they could just go live in a different area that is more affordable!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The OP apparently doesn’t know that Quarry Springs exists. Even though it’s as big and gaudy as the Mormon temple. You absolutely cannot miss it… unless you’re someone who just likes talking about places you’ve never been.

Quarry Springs is in Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm talking about apartments, rent controlled and affordable housing needs to be a priority in that town

Why exactly does Potomac NEED multi-family housing? Why do you believe affordable housing should be a priority in this particular area?

Because it is not already there is not an acceptable answer

But that is their answer. That’s what they want. No matter how silly it may be as a practical matter, and no matter how in tension with other priorities like anti-sprawl, the highest priority of low income housing advocates is that such housing must be in *every* neighborhood, and the whiter and richer an area is, the more important that it be diversified. Every knee must bow.

You nailed it…it’s simply a bunch of children stamping their feet and yelling that IT’S JUST NOT FAIR that affluent neighborhoods exist. Their solution doesn’t just force additional housing into places that it doesn’t need to be, it has the secondary purpose of bringing down existing property values, thereby lowering the average. This is how they think you create affordable housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I don't really understand all of the drama surrounding affordable housing. I would love to live in San Diego or Manhattan, but I can't afford it. So I ended up living somewhere that is more affordable. And despite their best efforts to increase multi family housing, these areas remain very expensive.

Absolutely. It's not like affluent people in the DC need retail workers, child care workers, repair workers, grocery workers, home health workers, delivery workers, restaurant workers, landscaping workers, cleaning workers, garbage workers, or construction workers. Or even teachers, police officers, or firefighters. So much drama about these non-affluent people needing a place to live in the DC area, when they could just go live in a different area that is more affordable!

Well housing in DC isn't affordable and DC doesn't seem to have a problem attracting people to work lower paying jobs.

I'm not sure you are aware, but all of those jobs exist in suburbia as well. If you want to work as a DC cop, you are most likely going to have to commute into DC just like the millions of other middle class workers who are doing the same thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The OP apparently doesn’t know that Quarry Springs exists. Even though it’s as big and gaudy as the Mormon temple. You absolutely cannot miss it… unless you’re someone who just likes talking about places you’ve never been.

Quarry Springs is in Bethesda.

Quarry Springs is outside the Beltway on River Rd half a mile from Congressional Country Club. You can say it is Bethesda all you want, but it is basically Potomac for all intents and purposes.

[Anonymous]

What Potomac needs is some well placed interchanges around it so a road is able to bypass it that will eventually cross the Potomac and meet up with route 28

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What Potomac needs is some well placed interchanges around it so a road is able to bypass it that will eventually cross the Potomac and meet up with route 28

The interchanges creep finally posts something sensible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess I don't really understand all of the drama surrounding affordable housing. I would love to live in San Diego or Manhattan, but I can't afford it. So I ended up living somewhere that is more affordable. And despite their best efforts to increase multi family housing, these areas remain very expensive.

+1
We already have resource scarcity. Have you tried making an appointment with a specialist lately? Schools are bursting at the seams.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm talking about apartments, rent controlled and affordable housing needs to be a priority in that town

Why exactly does Potomac NEED multi-family housing? Why do you believe affordable housing should be a priority in this particular area?

Because it is not already there is not an acceptable answer

But that is their answer. That’s what they want. No matter how silly it may be as a practical matter, and no matter how in tension with other priorities like anti-sprawl, the highest priority of low income housing advocates is that such housing must be in *every* neighborhood, and the whiter and richer an area is, the more important that it be diversified. Every knee must bow.

You nailed it…it’s simply a bunch of children stamping their feet and yelling that IT’S JUST NOT FAIR that affluent neighborhoods exist. Their solution doesn’t just force additional housing into places that it doesn’t need to be, it has the secondary purpose of bringing down existing property values, thereby lowering the average. This is how they think you create affordable housing.

Well, actually that’s the very definition of unfair: neighborhoods that are unattainable for low income people. So yes, that’s indeed unfair, and worth stamping feet about.

And there’s a lot more of them than there are of you. And they will outvote you one day when someone more progressive than Elrich runs for office and promises them they’ll be making you pay your fair share.

So I suggest you enjoy your little enclave while you still shut everyone out. Because that’s going to change.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm talking about apartments, rent controlled and affordable housing needs to be a priority in that town

Why exactly does Potomac NEED multi-family housing? Why do you believe affordable housing should be a priority in this particular area?

Because it is not already there is not an acceptable answer

But that is their answer. That’s what they want. No matter how silly it may be as a practical matter, and no matter how in tension with other priorities like anti-sprawl, the highest priority of low income housing advocates is that such housing must be in *every* neighborhood, and the whiter and richer an area is, the more important that it be diversified. Every knee must bow.

You nailed it…it’s simply a bunch of children stamping their feet and yelling that IT’S JUST NOT FAIR that affluent neighborhoods exist. Their solution doesn’t just force additional housing into places that it doesn’t need to be, it has the secondary purpose of bringing down existing property values, thereby lowering the average. This is how they think you create affordable housing.

Well, actually that’s the very definition of unfair: neighborhoods that are unattainable for low income people. So yes, that’s indeed unfair, and worth stamping feet about.

And there’s a lot more of them than there are of you. And they will outvote you one day when someone more progressive than Elrich runs for office and promises them they’ll be making you pay your fair share.

So I suggest you enjoy your little enclave while you still shut everyone out. Because that’s going to change.

Or someone more libertarian. Single-family-detached-ONLY zoning is a violation of private property rights.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm talking about apartments, rent controlled and affordable housing needs to be a priority in that town

Why exactly does Potomac NEED multi-family housing? Why do you believe affordable housing should be a priority in this particular area?

Because it is not already there is not an acceptable answer

But that is their answer. That’s what they want. No matter how silly it may be as a practical matter, and no matter how in tension with other priorities like anti-sprawl, the highest priority of low income housing advocates is that such housing must be in *every* neighborhood, and the whiter and richer an area is, the more important that it be diversified. Every knee must bow.

You nailed it…it’s simply a bunch of children stamping their feet and yelling that IT’S JUST NOT FAIR that affluent neighborhoods exist. Their solution doesn’t just force additional housing into places that it doesn’t need to be, it has the secondary purpose of bringing down existing property values, thereby lowering the average. This is how they think you create affordable housing.

Well, actually that’s the very definition of unfair: neighborhoods that are unattainable for low income people. So yes, that’s indeed unfair, and worth stamping feet about.

And there’s a lot more of them than there are of you. And they will outvote you one day when someone more progressive than Elrich runs for office and promises them they’ll be making you pay your fair share.

So I suggest you enjoy your little enclave while you still shut everyone out. Because that’s going to change.

I’ve got a solution that will make you happy. Pave the agricultural reserve and build massive apartments! It’s a win-win for everyone. The people of Potomac will be happy and you will be happy living in a massive apartment in the exurbs like you want.