Reply to all these affordable housing do gooders are doing the billionaires' work

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "all these affordable housing do gooders are doing the billionaires' work"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will also point out how myopic this group is:  they only want to build more apartments, with no regard to infrastructure like traffic, schools, libraries, police and fire stations, parks to play in for all the kids who inevitably are going to end up living in those apartments.  Any anyone who disagrees with them, or brings up any other angles (including schools), is immediately labeled a racist/bigot[/quote]

The schools argument is generally overstated because enrollment is actively declining across the county, precipitating an enrollment crisis.[/quote]

Sort of. For a long time the system was over capacity and the YIMBYs didn’t care about it then either. Even now, there isn’t enough school capacity close to the places people want to live. Compact growth was a big paradigm shift so of course infrastructure needs were going to change. The YIMBYs just waived that away. [/quote]

Hmm, interesting. School capacity seems to be a larger issue I’d like to see strong leadership from the superintendent and school board on. Building more housing near transit seems like a useful way of alleviating some of those concerns. As more people move into the county, we’ll need to evaluate infrastructure needs regardless, but it should be easier to build on what’s already there (and will allow us to expand our tax base, which is good!)[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics