DC’s “Housing Crisis” is that it has too many Studios and 1-BDs - or why GGW is always wrong

[Anonymous]

The DC Policy Center says that from 2018-2019, the only effective population growth in DC was from births.
https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/districts-population-grows-14th-year-row-weaker-rate/

Over the last 10 years, the GGW shills have been promoting and praising more and more smaller apartments, more studios and 1-BDs, even “micro-units”, over multi-bedroom family apartments and other family housing like new build THs. The claim is that there will be a trickle down effect, “benefits should eventually spread across all tiers of comparable housing”.
https://ggwash.org/view/43334/were-building-apartments-to-be-far-smaller-than-we-used-to

Using these theories they have promoted gentrification of neighborhoods, including demolition of existing family housing to produce more and more “luxury” studios and 1-BDs.
https://ggwash.org/view/73267/on-average-gentrification-helps-people-but-that-doesnt-mean-its-not-painful-for-some

In 2020, the population of DC declined while the demand for family housing increased due to the number of babies with predictable results. Rents for “luxury” studios and 1-BDs fell by double digits.
https://dcist.com/story/20/12/07/this-map-shows-where-rents-are-dropping-in-d-c/

In the meantime, prices of housing suitable for families, SFHs, THs and 3+ BD condos, have skyrocketed increasing by double digits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/mapping-dc-regions-2020-housing-market/

OOPSIES!

So now they are screaming about the need for more “Missing Middle” now that young, UMC white people want family housing. Should of thought about that 10 years ago. In fact, people were saying that DC should focus more on family housing 10 years ago, particularly the city’s low income housing activists but they were either ignored or shouted down as NIMBYS. So here we are.

After the streetcar debacle, it is unfathomable to me that anyone would ever listen to these people and yet, a decade of stupid policy resulting in the current chaos was a completely obvious outcome.

In the meantime, RFK is coming down and instead of doing everything possible to turn that site into a beautiful TH and multi-family community that could house thousands of families, the GGW shills are trying to upzone Ward 3 which wouldn’t produce only a trickle of new family housing per year.

Idiots. Or should we question the motives?

Just stop listening to these people.

[jsteele]

There are multiple threads covering population and housing in DC.