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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The density gang would like to see open space turned into luxury apartments.[/quote]

Why are you this confused?

Density advocates want more density in urban areas so that housing doesn’t eat up every last green space that's left. Anti-sprawl. You literally have things completely backwards![/quote]

Density advocates love to talk about “induced demand” in the context of building roads.  But they never mention the induced demand caused by building more housing. [/quote]

Not true at all. For example, people are leaving urban areas, because they can't afford to live there, because demand so greatly exceeds supply. Including college graduates.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/superstar-cities-thrived-on-college-graduates-now-theyre-leaving/

Now, I don't think that's good for the future of the DC area, and I think we need a lot more housing, and I think it needs to go in the city parts of the DC (including DC) instead of on former farmland - but maybe your goal is depopulation, which has certainly been good for creating more open space in cities like Detroit and St. Louis.[/quote]

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