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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Theres also this mindset that people should be able to live and maybe even buy in whatever neighborhood they please, regardless of income.  Thats just not how life works.  [/quote]

Well yeah, that's kind of the whole point of YIMBYism, that we want to change how life works because we think it could be better.

Nobody is saying anyone who wants a 5br house in AU Park should have one, we're just saying maybe there shouldn't be laws that prevent property owners building multifamily housing on their own property so that someone who can't afford a 5BR house but can afford a studio apartment can live there.   [/quote]

Actually, that's exactly what the young couples at the ANC meetings were voicing--that they wanted bigger / better than the apartments they were living in in Ward 3. "Affordable starter Family living without leaving the neighborhood" . And how do these studio apartments address that exactly? These young couples seemed BOTH entitled and confused in their YIMBYism.[/quote]

I own a house in AU Park, and I am also in favor of building multifamily housing in the neighborhood so other people can be able to live there if they make less money than I do. What's really "entitled" is saying, "Well, I have the resources to move to this desirable area that's got lots of public transit and good schools, and now that I'm here, I oppose any changes that might make it easier for others to do the same thing." Personally, I'm also in favor of building city-owned public housing in our neighborhood, but I realize there's a long way to go to convince any of my neighbors on that one.[/quote]

You really need to get informed.  A new family housing shelter was just built. There are tons of apartments all up and down Wisconsin and Conneticut, with rent-controlled units (I have friends in them). I lived in an apartment "with a family" and child went to a good school. [b]There is an existing supply of housing for people who make less money than you do.[/b] However, every motivated person seeking a "good school" in the neighborhood is one less person going to a school elsewhere and contributing their motivation elsewhere. The solution to equitable housing and education in our city is not an endless supply of more apartments in NW DC. There are tons of neighborhoods that can be gently developed in a balanced way across the city (including NW DC), which would mean more of more for everyone. However, the YIMBYS have their heavy breathing soley for NW DC. Sorry, your and their ideas are a fail, and also kinda classist and racist since you only see "value" in NW DC.[/quote]

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