all these affordable housing do gooders are doing the billionaires' work
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Anonymous
We live in a city of 68 square miles, about a third of which is take up by federal property and parkland. If you think about how many more people could live in the District of even a quarter of the SFH was over time, converted to missing middle housing along transit corridors, we could easily have over a million residents. |
Anonymous
+1. Or they are just labeled a NIMBY. But it’s not NIMBYism to point out that schools are over capacity (where that’s the case) or that traffic is a nightmare and the public transit system is tens of billions of dollars and years away from being a functional substitute in many places. |
Anonymous
+1. But stated as fact. Again, cult. |
Anonymous
The US has been emphasizing SFH since the end of WW2 if not longer. It’s not why there are issues with housing affordability today. |
Anonymous
PP here - thank you for answering the question. I have to admit I'm not very well versed on this subject. I always thought/ assumed "missing middle" housing meant houses for the low middle to middle middle class families. So like where I grew up, which was a SFH, but a small one on a small lot. All the families in our neighborhood were working class, or mid-level professionals. Nothing like the mcmansions of today. But it sounds like I'm wrong, and "missing middle" means something else? Cause in my experience I feel like there's plenty of options for singles or couples (apartments/condos), but no where where I can raise a family without being really rich. Every time I see another "mixed use" development going up I get so depressed, because it's always just condos and apartments. But maybe the "American dream" of a house with a little yard and family is just dead? |
Anonymous
DP. Which parts do you think aren’t true? |
Anonymous
Existing housing prices aren’t coming down (at least SFH). They are adding new inventory of less expensive housing options. |
Anonymous
Don’t let these people fool you. Missing middle is just millennials that want to own a place in a desirable area but can’t afford to. They couldn’t care less about families. They certainly don’t want them in SFHs. |
Anonymous
Plenty of people want the same thing you describe. But they keep building luxury condo and apartment buildings. The supporters hate single family homes even though many people would prefer a small single family home over living in a multi family building. |
Anonymous
Not quite. Missing middle is a marketing fad. Politicians think it’s middle class housing but it’s really just smaller, expensive housing that boomers buy to rent out or use as a pied-à-terre. |
Anonymous
Stop using millennials as the boogeyman. Millennials are in their 40s and late 30s now. Most of the millennials I know have 2-4 kids and own homes. We're on to the next generation getting screwed. |
Anonymous
Blah blah blah. You are missing the point. You know what happens when they build massive 800 unit apartments near certain corridors, but behind them are neighborhoods? All those units have multiple dwellers who start parking their cars all over neighborhoods. There is an overabundance of trash, crowding, and congestion. You don't need to raze all SFH, you just need to build one massive sh!tty apartment complex full of renters who often give zero Fs. The entire neighborhood goes to ass and people move out. The properties are then bought up by flippers and landlords who turn them into even more rentals and the neighborhood is effectively ruined. All these do gooder idiots can't see the obvious. They are ruining your homes and destroying whatever is left of the middle class' ability to own anything. These idiots are going to end up causing the entire country to turn into nation of renters who Will not be able own anything anymore. All because these morons thought they were doing good by creating "affordable housing". They are falling for the billionaires' crap propaganda because they want to take all land ownership out of the hands of the masses. |
Anonymous
Amen!!!!! |
Anonymous
I’m sorry you feel that way. You seem pretty upset. Thank you for being transparent about why you feel the way you do. Your last point is just wrong — YIMBYism will make land ownership accessible to more people. I don’t think I can say anything to change your mind, but I promise you that economics suggests that building more housing will make housing more affordable and easier to buy. |
Anonymous
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DP.
Some of those opposed seem always to make the mistake of saying YIMBYs are going to tear down detached SFHs as though the policies currently pursued allow them to force that. While some YIMBYs would like that, being terribly against detached SFHs/car-based suburbia, the zoning/etc. policies they've gotten enacted are about allowance for an owner to do something with a property, not forcing them to do that. This sets up an easy retort from YIMBYs along the lines of, "No one is forcing you to tear down your home/move," when the issue really is about all the surroundings of the home in which one lives. What makes someone want to live in a particular town/neighborhood? It's the characteristics of that town/neighborhood. Some of that has to do with proximity to one's occupation. Some of that has to do with the available services (schools, parks, roads, transit, etc.) and commercial amenities. And some of that has to do with relative crowding and neighborhood appearance. And that last bit has a lot to do with the policy changes spurred by YIMBYs. It doesn't have to be one's own home that changes to change one's interest in or enjoyment of one's neighborhood/town. And, with moving being a pretty imposing burden, highly economically inefficient from a whole-of-society perspective, a change imposed on sizable populations already living in built-out neighborhoods, like, say Four Corners with the new U Blvd plan on top of the AHSI-related corridor changes, should be far more scrutinized than proposed conditions (zoning, etc.) for the buildout of entire new communities, such as those more recently developed upcouty around Germantown. |