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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I guess my fear is that NWDC will become just very wealthy people (lawyers) living in SFHs, singles living for a few years in expensive condos, and previously homeless people filling up the condos with the tax $$ of the rich.  We need middle or upper middle class families -- those with an income of $300k or so -- to live here too.[/quote]

No, we really really do not need middle class people as immediate neighbors.  As long as there are middle class and UMC people living somewhere in the general area, we're all good.  And what do you know, the area has a ton of such people.  Quite literally millions of middle and UMC people distributed throughout DC, Montgomery, PG, Arlington and Fairfax counties.

The only people who benefit from shoehorning additional middle class households specifically into FH -- vs. Rockville, or Hyattsville -- are developers. [/quote]

It's funny. The existing buildings  up and down Conn AND Wisconsin and some larger side streets are crammed with apartments and condos. I lived in them on a salary far below 300K and consider myself middle class. You just need to make space trade offs. I have friends who live in rent control, and that was helpful to a lot of elderly as well. Then Bowser started flipping them for vouchers, which have been a disaster. Part of this whole growth argument came from folks whining (I've heard them at ANC meetings; often young professionals "I grew up in this neighborhood and now I can't immediately afford a house as I begin my career kind of thing") that everyone should be able to afford the larger housing in NW, and since they can't, we will subdivide SFHs into 6 units etc. Which kind of takes you back to where you started. Makes NO sense to me. But the developers are loving the logic fail.[/quote]

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