And to be tin-eared enough to complain about schools closing when you're a absurdly wealthy White man of privilege who hasn't needed to work in more than a decade is astounding. |
No, I think they perfectly understand. It’s just talking points for them. In the context of transportation they will cite induced demand, but when it’s housing they use a different model. |
Completely agree with all of this. |
Some GGW write absurd columns about Arlington that also appear in ArlNow. One recent series by a privileged white non binary who attended an Ivy and lives off his rich real estate agent mom argues that the curved streets in Lyon Village were designed to keep blacks out. He wants duplexes triplexes and small apartment built in Lyon Village so that it is affordable to everyone. |
I read some market research from Redfin that something crazy like 90% of Millennials prefer single family homes over shared walls, even if it meant a substantially longer commute. I’ll try to find it. The American consumer has spoken, as we can see with the housing market today. There’s really no broad constituency for the policies GGW promote. Which to me indicates that there are strong interest groups with large financial incentives backing it. |
We don't use the term around here, but for small apartment buildings, or maybe you could call them fourplexes, on SFH sized lots, we used to call them dingbats. |
But the PP isn’t really correct to a point. The smugness of the “you must accept my terms” and “take an economics class” while misunderstanding the market dynamics as you point out really is a lot of what people don’t like about GGW. The PP is like the model for what’s wrong with GGW. |
If you go to the Public school section of DCUM, you'll find plenty of parents frustrated with the sudden announcement of school closing without any warning. |
You are mis-stating the premise. It isn't cheaper, it is just cheaper than it would have been if nothing new had been built. |
LOL, you have no idea what you are talking about. |
Oh my lord. You don’t understand that the statement is: when supply goes up *marginal* prices go down? Meaning: if supply goes up a little bit, yet demand goes up more, then prices actually net go up because demand has gone up a lot and out weighs supply. You really don’t understand this? We’re moving from “take a high school economics class” to “use your God-given brain.” You NIMBYs are not impressing anyone with your logic. |
A whole Wash Post article about it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/dc-schools-close-juneteenth/2021/06/17/6779fe80-cfab-11eb-8014-2f3926ca24d9_story.html |
Its a great term. I have lived in 3 college towns in my life, and this type of housing was prevalent in all of them. Just reminds me of dumpy and also dumpsters out front. Do some people just not want to move on from college life? I'm starting to get that impression that these are the GGW folks. |
That land should be used for multi-family housing, not tacky McMansions. |
The YIYBY trolls (Yes in Your Backyard) from the GGW echo-chamber comment section are exactly the same as the NIMBYs they whine constantly about: they both want all the housing somewhere else. |