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There's five million people in the suburbs. They will instantly absorb any new units added in the District because who wants to spend three hours a day in the car? But don't worry -- you can get their old place in Manassas. [/quote]

Pretty much nobody in Loudoun commutes to DC.  They work in Loudoun, or Dulles or Tysons. You would have to make DC cheaper than Ashburn to get them to even consider living in DC.

Manassas?  Well I guess some from there do commute to DC (though plenty commute to Fairfax, and to Arlington) But plenty of those would never want to live in DC.

To put it differently.  There are close to 3 and a half million jobs in the metro area.

There are about 800k jobs in DC.  So at most 1/4 of the metro pop really would want to live in DC.

So about 1.5 million?  Double the current population of DC.

Except a lot of those people will not move to multifamily, period.

So, you are wrong.   (You also neglect that there are parts of Arlington with SHORTER commutes to DC job centers than much of DC, but thats a relatively minor point)

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