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There are over 1500 housing units under construction right now 1 to 2 blocks south of that site.  Yet you say that Tenleytown needs more, more, more.

By the way, how many of the units at City Ridge and at 4000 Wisconsin will be truly affordable?  Yeah.  But that is the Smart Growth pretext for allowing laissez faire development in DC.[/quote]

the housing under development is all matter of right. next time, support laws that force developers to make more affordable units available rather than just flexing into 'no new development' mode.[/quote]

Density Bros have been telling us for twenty years that development creates affordable units. The fact that they cannot identify those units in the past twenty years is besides the point. Oh and the fact that apparently studio efficiencies count as affordable housing units. The density argument is simply disingenuous. [/quote]

Roughly 8% of the new units built are affordable. Consider how expensive housing in general would be if there are 50,000 fewer units than there are today. Consider how much less property and income tax the city would have, if those units were never built.

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So your argument is to build, baby, build! so that DC can have more tax revenue?   More units demand more services, particularly in NW DC where public schools, many of which have been significantly expanded, are over capacity again.  So development is not just free money to the District.  Moreover, DC politicians are not exactly frugal when it comes to not wasting revenue -- they spend like drunken sailors (although there may be controlled substances that are better analogies).[/quote]

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