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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um, he’s making a simple point: when you block housing from being built, there is not enough housing. Not enough housing makes housing prohibitively expensive. [/quote]

There is zero room for new housing where I live.  Zero open spaces, no land.  I remember listening to an NPR piece 10 years ago about how valuable land/property would be exponentially in the future in the close in DC/VA/Md areas.  In 10-years, I’ve seen a $400k appreciation in my main property in VA 2.5 miles across boarder of DC. Neighbors that bought 5-7 years before me have seen &1 million, from $400k purchase to $1.4 million value.

It’s crazy.  [/quote]

I'm sure there's plenty of room. It's simply a question of tearing down existing SFH housing and replacing it with higher density multifamily housing. If we built on the scale the Victorians did, in higher density urban rows with perhaps apartment blocks at the end of each block, we'd easily accommodate a much higher urban density without much trouble. That's what people manage to do in Europe and survive just fine and dandy.

The issue, as the OP's article pointed out, is that there is staunch resistance to rezoning to allow higher density housing in urban areas. And most of that resistance is from liberals who have entrenched interest in not changing zoning regulations, whether they're gentry liberals in Bethesda or urban liberals afraid of gentrification in inner city areas. [/quote]

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