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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:<b>I resent the attitude that neighbors should have no say in preserving the character of their neighborhoods. <b> Plus there's a constant theme of "I can't afford to live in the hippest areas of DC, so you all need to build enough to make the area more affordable". Sorry - doesn't work like that.

With regard to the way historical designation works in DC, I resent that neighbors DON'T have a say in allowing change to the character of their neighborhoods. I have appreciated GGWash coverage of the messed up, any application gets approved, process in DC.

And they advocate for an even more laissez faire development approval process.

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Anonymous wrote:Rational people and economists have found the thread, everyone. Get ready for NIMBY/rightwing whining in 3..2..1.

Will the GGW rational people be enough to outweigh the bad-faith NIMBYs/rightwingers? Remains to be seen.

Lol I can't tell if you are a GGW booster YIMBY or a NIMBY troll. But what's happening in the SFH markets seems to indicate the NIMBYs outweigh the YIMBYs. The next hottest home type is TH...mainly based on price point/what people can afford, many people eventually move from TH to SFH later (there's also some downsizing from SFH to TH, but not as much as the other way around). Then you have a languishing condo/apt market.

The 3-BD condo market in certain neighborhoods, like the Hill, seems to be doing well. But otherwise, yeah.

3+ BD condo market in DC is more like the SFH/rowhouse market than it is like the 1 BD condo market.
Totally different customer base than the young single people looking for smaller condos.

In part this is because American cities don’t build enough family size apartments, because our housing policy favors detached SFH’s in suburban settings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rational people and economists have found the thread, everyone. Get ready for NIMBY/rightwing whining in 3..2..1.

Will the GGW rational people be enough to outweigh the bad-faith NIMBYs/rightwingers? Remains to be seen.

Lol I can't tell if you are a GGW booster YIMBY or a NIMBY troll. But what's happening in the SFH markets seems to indicate the NIMBYs outweigh the YIMBYs. The next hottest home type is TH...mainly based on price point/what people can afford, many people eventually move from TH to SFH later (there's also some downsizing from SFH to TH, but not as much as the other way around). Then you have a languishing condo/apt market.

The 3-BD condo market in certain neighborhoods, like the Hill, seems to be doing well. But otherwise, yeah.

3+ BD condo market in DC is more like the SFH/rowhouse market than it is like the 1 BD condo market.
Totally different customer base than the young single people looking for smaller condos.

In part this is because American cities don’t build enough family size apartments, because our housing policy favors detached SFH’s in suburban settings.

Why did the developers that built all of the 1 bedroom condos not build more 3 bedroom condos? Did housing policy prevent them from doing so? Or were they just looking to maximize profits?

Good housing policy would have forced developers to build more 3 bedroom apartments and condos. But that has been explicitly anathema to GGW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

+1

YIYBY - Yes In YOUR Backyard

It should be mandatory for urbanists at meetings to state/prove where they live and how they got there. Exclusive, all white, rich, SFH neighborhood, in a car.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

That land should be used for multi-family housing, not tacky McMansions.

But then the urbanists would have to admit they don’t actually want density. They want SFHs for them.

If they were for density, a mid rise condo or apartment wouldn’t bother them.

They’d also have to confront their despicable racism because there are tons of metro accessible and affordable homes east of Anacostia.

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Anonymous wrote:GGW founder David Alpert deleted his Twitter today after firing off some apparently questionable things about the DCPS Juneteenth announcement. People saying he has been canceled.

It’s not unexpected. To be cynical enough to be a white person demagoguing on race in a majority black city indicates that there’s a lot going on.

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.

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.

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

It's kind of weird to reflexively feel the need to defend one person like this, particularly if you are supposedly issue oriented.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I resent the attitude that neighbors should have no say in preserving the character of their neighborhoods. Plus there's a constant theme of "I can't afford to live in the hippest areas of DC, so you all need to build enough to make the area more affordable". Sorry - doesn't work like that.

Totally. All of this. Nothing ever fully captures anything from the side of those who take a financial risk. It’s always this perceived attack on monies interests and how they rape the poor and yada yada. Most landlords are small time. I wish there was more of a vocal voice for these folks.

It’s hard for me to understand. The folks on the inside clearly see the whole picture. They are fundraising, etc. But their readership and foot soldiers that they have cultivated, I cannot fathom how they have been convinced to support policies against their own interests. There is no mechanism by which hundreds of “luxury” apartments in a desirable area will make that area cheaper for them. They may cite obscure “studies”, but here in this area there is a positive feedback loop. More “luxury” apartments in an area breed more luxury apartments.

Because flooding supply makes housing more obtainable than if thee is minimal or now housing available. Even if it is "luxury."

This really isn't hard.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Rational people and economists have found the thread, everyone. Get ready for NIMBY/rightwing whining in 3..2..1.

Will the GGW rational people be enough to outweigh the bad-faith NIMBYs/rightwingers? Remains to be seen.

Lol I can't tell if you are a GGW booster YIMBY or a NIMBY troll. But what's happening in the SFH markets seems to indicate the NIMBYs outweigh the YIMBYs. The next hottest home type is TH...mainly based on price point/what people can afford, many people eventually move from TH to SFH later (there's also some downsizing from SFH to TH, but not as much as the other way around). Then you have a languishing condo/apt market.

The 3-BD condo market in certain neighborhoods, like the Hill, seems to be doing well. But otherwise, yeah.

3+ BD condo market in DC is more like the SFH/rowhouse market than it is like the 1 BD condo market.
Totally different customer base than the young single people looking for smaller condos.

In part this is because American cities don’t build enough family size apartments, because our housing policy favors detached SFH’s in suburban settings.

Why did the developers that built all of the 1 bedroom condos not build more 3 bedroom condos? Did housing policy prevent them from doing so? Or were they just looking to maximize profits?

Good housing policy would have forced developers to build more 3 bedroom apartments and condos. But that has been explicitly anathema to GGW.

Then change the housing policy. That is what GGW is trying to do!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

That land should be used for multi-family housing, not tacky McMansions.

It should be. A builder could then make $800,000 on the deal instead of $200,000. Further proof that those if your sort are in the pocket of builders and you are too stupid to realize that you are being played for no profit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s local Vox. Even on the issue of transportation, which it frequently diverges from into every other leftist issue, you’re much better off reading any other local source.

Better are often the actually studies for a particular project that they reference and sometimes link. You’ll then notice that what they say or spin isn’t even close to what was actually said.

what local sources cover transportation in much detail?

people dislike GGW because they are triggered by people with a bit of influence that may result in them losing a parking space. truth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:GGW founder David Alpert deleted his Twitter today after firing off some apparently questionable things about the DCPS Juneteenth announcement. People saying he has been canceled.

It’s not unexpected. To be cynical enough to be a white person demagoguing on race in a majority black city indicates that there’s a lot going on.

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.

Once he had children he couldn't resist wading into issues that are at best peripheral to his area of expertise. His just another rich, white Ross parent totally oblivious to anything happening outside his tiny world. And, while I appreciated GGW in its early days, and David certainly subsidized it, he also profited from it to the tune of a very nice rowhouse in Dupont Circle, close ties with Jack Evans, and the list goes on. He's since left, of course, and there are a few solid folks still writing for them, but I agree with all the previous posters that it's become too much of an echo-chamber despite the fact that I'm one of those transit-loving, cycling, urban density supporting liberals.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GGW founder David Alpert deleted his Twitter today after firing off some apparently questionable things about the DCPS Juneteenth announcement. People saying he has been canceled.

It’s not unexpected. To be cynical enough to be a white person demagoguing on race in a majority black city indicates that there’s a lot going on.

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.

Once he had children he couldn't resist wading into issues that are at best peripheral to his area of expertise. His just another rich, white Ross parent totally oblivious to anything happening outside his tiny world. And, while I appreciated GGW in its early days, and David certainly subsidized it, he also profited from it to the tune of a very nice rowhouse in Dupont Circle, close ties with Jack Evans, and the list goes on. He's since left, of course, and there are a few solid folks still writing for them, but I agree with all the previous posters that it's become too much of an echo-chamber despite the fact that I'm one of those transit-loving, cycling, urban density supporting liberals.

I'm pretty sure he had the nice house before GGW started generating any money, no?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

That land should be used for multi-family housing, not tacky McMansions.

It should be. A builder could then make $800,000 on the deal instead of $200,000. Further proof that those if your sort are in the pocket of builders and you are too stupid to realize that you are being played for no profit.

You're just making up numbers. Just stop.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:GGW founder David Alpert deleted his Twitter today after firing off some apparently questionable things about the DCPS Juneteenth announcement. People saying he has been canceled.

It’s not unexpected. To be cynical enough to be a white person demagoguing on race in a majority black city indicates that there’s a lot going on.

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.

Once he had children he couldn't resist wading into issues that are at best peripheral to his area of expertise. His just another rich, white Ross parent totally oblivious to anything happening outside his tiny world. And, while I appreciated GGW in its early days, and David certainly subsidized it, he also profited from it to the tune of a very nice rowhouse in Dupont Circle, close ties with Jack Evans, and the list goes on. He's since left, of course, and there are a few solid folks still writing for them, but I agree with all the previous posters that it's become too much of an echo-chamber despite the fact that I'm one of those transit-loving, cycling, urban density supporting liberals.

I'm pretty sure he had the nice house before GGW started generating any money, no?

GGW doesn't generate any money and their funding has dried up in recent years. They have to have begging drives every six months or so, moreso now that Alpert and his Google riches have left the group.

[Anonymous]

They don't generate money and never have. It is mostly a non-profit with a bunch of volunteers.