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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]

I doubt that building 110' buildings in the Palisades and Chevy Chase DC will make those neighborhoods more desirable.  What makes them desirable is their leafy, village in the city character.  DC doesn't need a one-size-fits-all approach to planning.  [/quote]

OK, so Navy Yard is expensive because lots of people live there, whereas the Palisades and Chevy Chase DC are expensive because few people live there. Got it.[/quote]

Increasing density pushes housing prices up, and it's not hard to see why.

The more people live in a small area, the most businesses want to be there too. As restaurants and bars and stores move in, the area becomes more desirable so more and more people want to live there, and prices go up accordingly. That's what happened in Navy Yard. Before that, it happened in U Street and 14th Street and H Street and...

Palisades and Chevy Chase are expensive for entirely other reasons (the houses are beautiful, the schools are great, etc.).

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Er no, what happened on 14th street was that people who were priced out of Dupont started buying and rehabing homes in Logan Circle.  The gentrification made it a desirable place for density, not the other way around.  Similar for H Street and gentrifcation creeping north from the Hill, and on U Street.

Its POSSIBLE that bars etc make a neighborhood more desirable. But again, if so, that means a new nabe with bars will draw off demand from an old neighborhood with bars.  The point is that new supply lowers prices in a wider area, the full market, the one tiny place where it is added.

I mean unless you think that hipsters spontaneously generate to fill new amenity filled neighborhoods. [/quote]

this is all baloney. gentrification and "increasing density" are the same thing. i love these tortured arguments that try to pretend they aren't one and the same. [/quote]

You can repeat that as much as you want,  but they are not the same thing. [/quote]

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