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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“What Republicans want to do with I.C.E. and border walls, wealthy progressive Democrats are doing with zoning and Nimbyism. Preserving “local character,” maintaining “local control,” keeping housing scarce and inaccessible — the goals of both sides are really the same: to keep people out”

NY Time opinion piece in California could have easily been written about the NW NIMBYs.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/opinion/california-housing-nimby.html[/quote]

I’m getting sick of these references to “Northwest NIMBYs”.  It’s become a sort of ridiculous meme, spread by shills for development interests in DC.  Do you realize that nearly 1600 residences are being constructed just in the two blocks alone opposite Sidwell Friends? If just 10 percent of those units have elementary school age children, that could be over 100 more kids just at Hearst.  There are about 1000 more units planned in AU Park and elsewhere in Tenleytown.  And that’s approximately 2600 new housing units within less than one square mile of Ward 3.[/quote]

Which isn’t enough housing. The author is making a simple point: when you block housing from being built, there is not enough housing. Not enough housing makes housing prohibitively expensive. [b]Just because you have a house, doesn’t mean no one else deserves one.[/b] [/quote]

What makes desirable SFHs increasingly expensive in DC is that there aren't a lot of areas where it's possible to build more of them.  Upzoning neighborhoods will decrease the stock of SFHs, and make the problem worse.[/quote]

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