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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather that busing we should take the Chevy Chase Country Club and Georgetown Prep campus by eminent domain and sell it to developers to build mixed use communities with new high schools at each site, with a stipulation that 30% of the housing be affordable housing and be available to Section 8. Rather than pit upper middle class people against lower middle class and working class people, let’s put the burden on the 1%. Let’s see how much the “progressives” on the council go for that idea.[/quote]

It's already 12.5-15% of all new housing in new developments in MoCo must be low-income housing. You can see a bunch of just a few hundred yards from CC country club, down Bradley near the fire station.[/quote]

And the funny part is how so many people don't understand that requiring below market housing forces up the cost of the other units (so even fewer people can afford the new units) and on and on it goes.  Economics is a thing.[/quote]

Economics is a complicated thing. The [b]MPDU requirement does not necessarily increase the cost of other housing[/b]. Sometimes developers even proffer a greater % of MPDUs than required.

Plus the market alone cannot supply decent housing for people with low incomes, because the cost of building and maintaining that housing is more than they can afford - [/quote]

Are you kidding?  Do you really think that the developers eat the cost of selling below market units?  Yes, the people purchasing the other units do.

Of course the market cannot supply decent housing for people with low incomes IN EXPENSIVE LOCATIONS.  It is the excess demand for housing or other uses for that particular location that makes the land expensive.  Yes, lots of people want to live in close-in DC suburbs, but not everyone gets to, because the market determines which people find the location most valuable.  Distortions like this absolutely drive up the cost for others.[/quote]

Quit that "market" nonsense. If it was up to the market someone who has a 1/2 acre in Chevy Chase could sell it to a developer to build a high-rise, 20 story apartment building with 3br apartments. The seller of the 1/2 acre lot would of course get more for their land and if you allowed this for every SFH in Chevy Chase it would dramatically lead to lower housing prices for people in need of 3br residences.

The "market" has been rigged by citizens associations and NIMBYs who want to keep their quaint neighborhoods as in for perpetuity through zoning laws. The "market" has allowed the 1% to hoard huge swaths of land in close-in MoCo for their country clubs and their $70,000/year private schools like Georgetown Prep, Langdon and Stone Ridge, which jacks up the prices for UMC, MC, LMC and working class people because it takes thousands of acres of land out of circulation that could theoretically be used for denser housing if these plots were freed up.

Middle class people of all stripes have been squeezed to the breaking point to overextend on housing to get into "good" schools, and now these "progressive" politicians are messing with their property values because they don't have the courage to take on the landed gentry and the 1% in this county, who don't have to worry about the quality of their public schools because they're relaxing, living off of capital gains and sending their kids to high schools that cost more than most elite colleges. Go after them first before you stick it to middle class folks, you so called "progressives."[/quote]

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