MOCO - County Wide Upzoning, Everywhere

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Anonymous wrote:NIMBYs in this thread: "This housing is not really affordable for [INSERT GROUP HERE THAT I DON'T ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT]"

State: "Ok, let's raise your taxes to subsidize these units".

NIMBYs: "No not like that! Something Something evil developer profits!!!11!!"

Geniuses at work people.

Lmao, speaking of genius, why should they be forced to subsidize housing in their SFH neighborhood where they don’t want multifamily homes in the first place?

It is so hilarious to me that you think you’ve made some point like a big boy.

It's not that hard to understand.

Most NIMBYs here keep yapping about "unaffordable" housing and "evil developer giveaways". They pretend to care about affordable housing but in reality it's just a ploy to stop housing. Because it's obvious they would never support the same affordability requirements in their own neighborhoods.

Get it? Or should I simplify it for a 3rd grader?

DP. You sound unhinged. When elected officials claim that their zoning changes or tax cuts or subsidies are to make housing more affordable, people are right to call them out if the housing isn’t affordable or isn't attainable for the people the politicians claimed it would serve.

And honestly providing basic consumer protections and demanding that developers deliver some social benefit isn’t unreasonable. A big part of their earnings are land rents that accumulate because of things the government or other people built. I’m happy to have the government capture part of those land rents for public benefit, whether in the form of taxes or low income housing.

Literally every study on the subject proves that flexible housing rules keep rents in check.

I guarantee you, 100%, that the "evil greedy developer" that built the home you live in right now didn't have to deal with this NIMBY shakedown "social justice" nonsense. You are a NIMBY, just embrace it.

At what point did rents achieve being “in check?” You are unhinged.

There are quite a few cities in the USA that have steady or even declining rents due to housing construction.

But, knowing that would require a cursory bit of research on your part. So I understand why you are ignorant of this fact.

LOL. If you did a cursory bit of research you’d know about the recent studies that show the opposite. For example: https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/wp2025-06.pdf. So literally not every study shows what you want it to show.

Tell me what rents in Montgomery County have done in the past year. YIMBYs said they would go up because of rent control and lack of construction but they haven’t and by some accounts rents have fallen for new leases. And this despite sluggish housing stock growth for a very long time before rent control.

The YIMBYs in this county are terrible economists unless their true goal all along was just helping speculators inflate land prices (which by the way doesn’t make housing more affordable). The county is horrible to people who want to actually build something, starting with the cumbersome site plan process that achieves nothing but enriching a few local law firms that donate a lot of money to Andrew Friedson all the way through the inefficient permitting and inspection processes.

So many tinfoil hats in this forum. What other conspiracy theories do you believe?

lol. Of course you don’t want to address the very well researched study that contradicts your point of view or acknowledge that the places where housing prices dropped by a few percent had to first suffer through price increases much higher than our own. If rents have to go up by 20 or 30 percent before they go down 2 or 3 percent I say no thanks to that approach.

That's a feature not a bug to the activists and politicians.