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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]GGW is very much a pro-developer website. They push anything that supports greater urbanization and density, which aligns nicely with the real estate industry's goals.[/quote]

Being YIMBY is not being pro-developer.  But yeah, "developer" is not a dirty word if you're interested in increasing affordable housing and livable cities.  [/quote]

This is developers' new spin, and it's just a bunch of double talk. Increasing density will only make the city more expensive and less livable. [/quote]

The population is only increasing, toots. Where do you recommend people live?[/quote]

Remember that gentrification is happening in all quadrants of the city, even in Upper NW.  Ward 3 has the second highest number of rent controlled units in the city, many of which are in older apartment buildings.  These buildings, often modest and not fancy, are being targeted by developers to be renovated for condos or upscale flats, or sometimes torn down altogether.  A recent example is a building on Connecticut Avenue, where the new owner has emptied it of 12 rent controlled units, to be replaced by 13 market rate apartments or condos and 1 IZ unit.  People of more limited means currently live in such buildings, enjoying access to transit, good public schools, shopping and recreation.  Yet as their buildings are gentrified, they are losing their homes and access to these services and amenities.  Council member Anita Bonds recently called rent controlled housing the most effective current form of affordable housing, but OP not only is not conserving rent controlled housing, it seems to be ignoring it.  Let's not lose an important source of existing affordable housing in Ward 3 through targeted gentrification.[/quote]

Then maybe you should be supporting more density on the Ward 3 corridors - Wisconsin and Connecticut Avenues, to make up the difference.[/quote]

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