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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Oh well. Guess the joke is on you cause your position is irrelevant. The city wants to significantly increase dedicated affordable housing options in Rock Creek West and it’s gonna happen despite your alternative suggestions. 
Looks like if you don’t want dedicated affordable housing in your neighborhood you’re gonna have to pack your shit and move. 
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No honey. It's not actually going to happen, simply because an administration produces a "report" describing an aspirational "goal" and then hold a press conference to announce an aspirational "proposal."[/quote]

Okay sweetie.  You can think whatever you want but the future of affordable housing in D.C. won’t be confined to the usual neighborhoods.  When Mayor Muriel Bowser released the District’s Housing Equity Report, which will create 36,000 new homes by 2025, 12,000 of which will be affordable to low-income residents but guess what...  they won’t be bunched together in the typical areas where you see low-income housing; they will placed to change the way things have been for a long time.  The new low-income housing will be integrated throughout the District’s eight wards, giving those in lower income brackets access to the same transportation opportunities and amenities as those of higher income levels.

Now the public review period of the plan runs through Dec. 20 so if you got objections I suggest you get off DCUM and go find yourself a drawing board to get a plan together to poke some legitimate holes in the plan prior to that date - otherwise IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.

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What is Mayor Bow-wow’s plan to preserve the substantial stock of rent controlled housing in Ward 3?  That is a huge source of existing affordable housing but the report doesn’t say anything about rent controlled housing.  Ironically, upzoning could drastically reduce such housing stock.

Methinks that her plan isn’t really about affordable housing.  But it is most certainly about creating new big, dense and tall lucrative development opportunities in NW DC for Bowser’s developer friends.[/quote]

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