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If anything, increasing density will make housing more expensive. Look at Navy Yard. Way more people live there now. It's also way more expensive than it used to be. Happens over and over and over in neighborhoods across DC. [/quote]

So, increasing the density of a neighborhood makes the neighborhood more desirable and in-demand? How about that.[/quote]

It also pushes out poor brown and black families to make room for rich white people without children. So that's that. Increasing density is basically the same thing as gentrification. 
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Typically neighborhoods in DC gentrify ahead of density.      Whites looking for rowhouses buy them and rehab them (or buy them from a flipper).   When the area finally has high prices, that is when the developers of apt buildings come in.

Now of course some of those who sell those rowhouses actively want to and are happy to take the $ and move to Md or outside the region.  But if the people living in the rowhouses are renters, DC should certainly look at ways to protect them. [/quote]

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