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[quote=Anonymous]It applies to any place where land is restricted, yet people really want to live.  DC, Seattle, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, LA – every big, productive, talent-magnet city in the US.

In all of those cities, housing prices are going way way up. That's a supply of land and demand for housing issue.

And Berlin and Holland have faced that, and they're findiing new solutions.

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DP. I don't have time to dissect your rebuttal to the PP line by line, as nearly all of it is wrong or specious (they never said DC doesn't have multi-generational housing, for instance), but I have to call out the bolded. That's just flat-out wrong. Upzoning and increasing density throughout DC would have a much bigger impact on housing than developing RFK alone.[/quote]
What are you arguing?

Someone posted an article and said that DC should adopt these policies. I pointed out that the examples in the article are already a big part of this city.  [/quote]

What am I arguing? You made the claim that if one really wanted to make an impact on housing, developing RFK would make a real impact. I responded by saying that upzoning and increasing density throughout the city would have a larger impact than developing a single parcel. Do you follow now, or should I use shorter words?[/quote]

Thank you, PP.  Just chiming in to agree.

The wrong and specious post is basically claiming that if there exists one multi-generational house in DC that's enough multi-generational housing.
No. 
If that's an option we want to explore (as Berlin has), we need policies to support it.

Who wouldn't want more options to live near their parents while they are raising kids?  Imagine that some of the new 1bd luxury developments going up were instead, due to policies that helped developers build them, buildings with 3bd's with nearby in-law suites.  There'd be demand for that.

The only real way that happens at scale is if we upzone a whole bunch of Ward 3 and build buildings like that there.  But sadly, a minority of older Ward 3 homeowners are blocking ideas like this.[/quote]

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