Soooo, how is high-density looking to everyone now?
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Anonymous
So you have a personal dislike of of stuff young professionals in DC are evidently willing to pay for. I get it - I have a personal dislike of brick-fronted, vinyl-sided single-family-detached houses with quartz countertops and spindly trees planted way too close to the house by the builders, in areas that were hayfields three years ago. Now imagine if I stood up a meeting and said, "I support a ban on development of former hayfields because those houses are dumb and ugly, and I liked the hayfields better." Actually you don't have to imagine, because people do that. It's not a winning argument. |
Anonymous
DP I’ll expand this to say it applies to the entire DMV area. There is an excess of housing. |
Anonymous
There sure is. That's why housing is so cheap here! Wait, what? |
Anonymous
You could double the number of housing units in DC and it would have zero effect on prices. It would just invite more people from the suburbs -- remember there are six million of them -- to move into the city. |
Anonymous
If there is existing housing on the market, why not offer subsidies to essential services people who want to live in the city and call it a day? |
Anonymous
That many? You want the corrupt DC area to be like Manhattan? I thought the city already had problems with clean water, rats, munitions, bad schools and city owned sports field in the exclusive use of one private school It is enough for me to be able to visit if I want. The walkability provided services you need at most once a month. If restaurant food is not your thing, and if your job is not right in the city, then there really isn't much incentive to live there |
Anonymous
PP, there is existing housing on the market because people don't stay put. It doesn't mean there's an excess of housing. It doesn't mean we don't need more housing. It just means that people move from one living situation to another. |
Anonymous
| Retail is failing so to have nice stores and restaurants, DC has to increase the populations density to provide more customers who love in proximity. This is one of the principles of smart growth. |
Anonymous
| Live in proximity |
Anonymous
What? Because a store goes out of business that means that the population of the city is not high enough to support it? No wonder urbanization is considered pseudoscience. It seems to be grounded in unicorns and fairies. |
Anonymous
Stores need customers in order to stay in business, no? |
Anonymous
| People shop more on line and sit-down restaurants are less common. So DC needs more density to support even the same level of retail and eating and drinking establishments. This is another important reason to bust through barriers to build a lot more housing. |
Anonymous
| Correction: sit down restaurant lunches are becoming less common |
Anonymous
Somehow, I think this is backwards. Businesses usually open when there is a need. Supply and demand. You want to create demand. It doesn't usually work that way. If you hadn't noticed, people are purchasing online. All retail is struggling--suburban malls were losing stores right and left before the pandemic. This won't help--although people will likely be anxious to get out when this is over. You don't build high density in order to help the corner bar. It just doesn't work that way. |
Anonymous
| The genius of vibrant smart growth density is that you can put 20 floors of residences on top of the corner bar. |