What do you think of YIMBYs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

My neighbors are being disrespectful of the future the rest of us want, rather than the past they are trying to hold on to.

I am pretty sure that your elderly neighbors who have lived there for decades are not calling you names. Seriously, get some perspective.

It sounds to me like you have invented in your head the idea that your neighbors are evil enemies and that you are trying to get revenge against them through zoning.

Totally normal behavior.

Talk about projection.

Sounds like to me the neighbors are trying to hold on to an antiquated and environmentally unsustainable way of life to stick it to the whipper snappers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

My neighbors are being disrespectful of the future the rest of us want, rather than the past they are trying to hold on to.

I am pretty sure that your elderly neighbors who have lived there for decades are not calling you names. Seriously, get some perspective.

It sounds to me like you have invented in your head the idea that your neighbors are evil enemies and that you are trying to get revenge against them through zoning.

Totally normal behavior.

Talk about projection.

Sounds like to me the neighbors are trying to hold on to an antiquated and environmentally unsustainable way of life to stick it to the whipper snappers.

You just proved my point. You have a lot of presumptions about your neighbors and seem very intent on not understanding them and somehow trying enforce your will against them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

My neighbors are being disrespectful of the future the rest of us want, rather than the past they are trying to hold on to.

I am pretty sure that your elderly neighbors who have lived there for decades are not calling you names. Seriously, get some perspective.

It sounds to me like you have invented in your head the idea that your neighbors are evil enemies and that you are trying to get revenge against them through zoning.

Totally normal behavior.

Talk about projection.

Sounds like to me the neighbors are trying to hold on to an antiquated and environmentally unsustainable way of life to stick it to the whipper snappers.

You just proved my point. You have a lot of presumptions about your neighbors and seem very intent on not understanding them and somehow trying enforce your will against them.

I was proving your point? I was being overly sarcastic.

Lighten up, Francis.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

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This is supposed to make people support more development or less?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Never watch Fox except for amusement purposes. But the real wealth are and will leave. The number of folks I know who have left the area for tax reasons is dozens. Many of the folks who are buying the high end condos live in fact elsewhere. Sold their Potomac homes, live in FL, and spend a few months a year in their condos.

You all have been saying this for decades, and somehow, it isn't happening. Or think of it this way....if a wealthy person is moving and selling their house for 4 million dollars, someone else as or more wealthy is buying that house. So...

Omg so true. It’s the same here in NYC. The wealthy haven’t gone anywhere!!

[Anonymous]

I ofter disagree with YIMBYs but I understand their point of view. It's the YIYBYs - the Yes, in your back yard! types - who are insufferable. They're the so-called smart growthers who want height and density everywhere, except in their own back yard. A case in point is the new chairman of the Woodley Park-Cleveland Park ANC, who has been a big cheerleader for up-zoning the area, even though much to it lies in two historic districts, and effectively ending single family zoning. Yet he resides most of the time not in DC, but in the single family home he purchased in Calvert County, MD. And while this "Absentee Neighborhood Commissioner" pushes density on the DC neighborhood he purports to represent, along with an ex-ANC commissioner he has opposed proposed infill development that might affect the view from his apartment rental in DC. A real YIYBY indeed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:YIMBY's love cloaking themselves in woke terminology and then guilting areas into YIMBY priorities and then feigning shock when the programs never amount to anything.

The densification argument is a classic YIMBY argument. Densification is not a new concept. Tell me where in DC housing prices have gone down or been stabilized based on new construction? How many below market rate houses are in the Navy Yard area? How many of those houses have families with kids in them? How many new schools have been built to accommodate the newly attracted families?

YIMBY is code for I have money invested in something involved with development.

Exactly. The most visible spokesman for densification in upper NW, a director of Ward 3 Vision, is a former Trump operative who uses the terminology of the woke left (affordability, equity, inclusion, fighting climate change) to secure windfall profit opportunities through zoning changes for the big developers who retained him. Yet the consulting firm he owns twice worked as chief pollster for Donald J. Trump, the president who used dog whistles to "save the suburbs" from affordable housing and the most anti-climate, anti-equity, anti-inclusion president in modern US history. The guy uses focus groups to test messaging to sell the agendas of unpalatable candidates, but this is beyond cynical even by DC standards. And yet the local politicians seem to accept at face value woke-sounding arguments pushed by Trumpers, to give the developers what they want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I ofter disagree with YIMBYs but I understand their point of view. It's the YIYBYs - the Yes, in your back yard! types - who are insufferable. They're the so-called smart growthers who want height and density everywhere, except in their own back yard. A case in point is the new chairman of the Woodley Park-Cleveland Park ANC, who has been a big cheerleader for up-zoning the area, even though much to it lies in two historic districts, and effectively ending single family zoning. Yet he resides most of the time not in DC, but in the single family home he purchased in Calvert County, MD. And while this "Absentee Neighborhood Commissioner" pushes density on the DC neighborhood he purports to represent, along with an ex-ANC commissioner he has opposed proposed infill development that might affect the view from his apartment rental in DC. A real YIYBY indeed.

Reminds me that the founder of GGW lives in townhome on a historically protected block in DuPont Circle. His life is totally impervious to everything that he advocates. I find that this is a common feature.

[Anonymous]

I’ve yet to meet a YIMBY or their lobbies that actually mean their backyards. Same thing with liberals and public schools, but send their kids to private, or buy into a particular neighborhood. Either way they’re not going to have their child and family attend the worst schools. Certainly won’t live within 10 miles of a homeless shelter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve yet to meet a YIMBY or their lobbies that actually mean their backyards. Same thing with liberals and public schools, but send their kids to private, or buy into a particular neighborhood. Either way they’re not going to have their child and family attend the worst schools. Certainly won’t live within 10 miles of a homeless shelter.

There are a few but it’s generally white people that live in sh*tty neighborhoods trying to encourage policies to bring more white people to their neighborhood to gentrify and displace the existing residents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:YIMBY's love cloaking themselves in woke terminology and then guilting areas into YIMBY priorities and then feigning shock when the programs never amount to anything.

The densification argument is a classic YIMBY argument. Densification is not a new concept. Tell me where in DC housing prices have gone down or been stabilized based on new construction? How many below market rate houses are in the Navy Yard area? How many of those houses have families with kids in them? How many new schools have been built to accommodate the newly attracted families?

YIMBY is code for I have money invested in something involved with development.

Exactly. The most visible spokesman for densification in upper NW, a director of Ward 3 Vision, is a former Trump operative who uses the terminology of the woke left (affordability, equity, inclusion, fighting climate change) to secure windfall profit opportunities through zoning changes for the big developers who retained him. Yet the consulting firm he owns twice worked as chief pollster for Donald J. Trump, the president who used dog whistles to "save the suburbs" from affordable housing and the most anti-climate, anti-equity, anti-inclusion president in modern US history. The guy uses focus groups to test messaging to sell the agendas of unpalatable candidates, but this is beyond cynical even by DC standards. And yet the local politicians seem to accept at face value woke-sounding arguments pushed by Trumpers, to give the developers what they want.

How dare anyone make money! The nerve of some people? Taking empty land and putting houses and businesses there. How dare they?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:YIMBY's love cloaking themselves in woke terminology and then guilting areas into YIMBY priorities and then feigning shock when the programs never amount to anything.

The densification argument is a classic YIMBY argument. Densification is not a new concept. Tell me where in DC housing prices have gone down or been stabilized based on new construction? How many below market rate houses are in the Navy Yard area? How many of those houses have families with kids in them? How many new schools have been built to accommodate the newly attracted families?

YIMBY is code for I have money invested in something involved with development.

Exactly. The most visible spokesman for densification in upper NW, a director of Ward 3 Vision, is a former Trump operative who uses the terminology of the woke left (affordability, equity, inclusion, fighting climate change) to secure windfall profit opportunities through zoning changes for the big developers who retained him. Yet the consulting firm he owns twice worked as chief pollster for Donald J. Trump, the president who used dog whistles to "save the suburbs" from affordable housing and the most anti-climate, anti-equity, anti-inclusion president in modern US history. The guy uses focus groups to test messaging to sell the agendas of unpalatable candidates, but this is beyond cynical even by DC standards. And yet the local politicians seem to accept at face value woke-sounding arguments pushed by Trumpers, to give the developers what they want.

How dare anyone make money! The nerve of some people? Taking empty land and putting houses and businesses there. How dare they?

Scamming people is good now?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:YIMBY's love cloaking themselves in woke terminology and then guilting areas into YIMBY priorities and then feigning shock when the programs never amount to anything.

The densification argument is a classic YIMBY argument. Densification is not a new concept. Tell me where in DC housing prices have gone down or been stabilized based on new construction? How many below market rate houses are in the Navy Yard area? How many of those houses have families with kids in them? How many new schools have been built to accommodate the newly attracted families?

YIMBY is code for I have money invested in something involved with development.

Exactly. The most visible spokesman for densification in upper NW, a director of Ward 3 Vision, is a former Trump operative who uses the terminology of the woke left (affordability, equity, inclusion, fighting climate change) to secure windfall profit opportunities through zoning changes for the big developers who retained him. Yet the consulting firm he owns twice worked as chief pollster for Donald J. Trump, the president who used dog whistles to "save the suburbs" from affordable housing and the most anti-climate, anti-equity, anti-inclusion president in modern US history. The guy uses focus groups to test messaging to sell the agendas of unpalatable candidates, but this is beyond cynical even by DC standards. And yet the local politicians seem to accept at face value woke-sounding arguments pushed by Trumpers, to give the developers what they want.

How dare anyone make money! The nerve of some people? Taking empty land and putting houses and businesses there. How dare they?

So you are OK with people who make money through a long con (that's what's described above, and you don't seem to be addressing that assertion).\

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:YIMBY's love cloaking themselves in woke terminology and then guilting areas into YIMBY priorities and then feigning shock when the programs never amount to anything.

The densification argument is a classic YIMBY argument. Densification is not a new concept. Tell me where in DC housing prices have gone down or been stabilized based on new construction? How many below market rate houses are in the Navy Yard area? How many of those houses have families with kids in them? How many new schools have been built to accommodate the newly attracted families?

YIMBY is code for I have money invested in something involved with development.

Exactly. The most visible spokesman for densification in upper NW, a director of Ward 3 Vision, is a former Trump operative who uses the terminology of the woke left (affordability, equity, inclusion, fighting climate change) to secure windfall profit opportunities through zoning changes for the big developers who retained him. Yet the consulting firm he owns twice worked as chief pollster for Donald J. Trump, the president who used dog whistles to "save the suburbs" from affordable housing and the most anti-climate, anti-equity, anti-inclusion president in modern US history. The guy uses focus groups to test messaging to sell the agendas of unpalatable candidates, but this is beyond cynical even by DC standards. And yet the local politicians seem to accept at face value woke-sounding arguments pushed by Trumpers, to give the developers what they want.

How dare anyone make money! The nerve of some people? Taking empty land and putting houses and businesses there. How dare they?

So you are OK with people who make money through a long con (that's what's described above, and you don't seem to be addressing that assertion).\

It seems to me that they are fully supportive of the con artists, supporting both the means and the ends. Pretty bleak.