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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]people do not have a right to live close in

Those areas are expensive and nice for a reason. Plenty of cheap housing 45 min outside DC.

Either buy there or make more money to afford closer in. Stop assaulting those areas in the name of "equity"[/quote]

+1. You don’t even need to travel 45 minutes out. There are plenty of inexpensive houses in silver spring and Rockville, and they’re even close to metro stations. I think the problem is that people want something that looks like it came out of a pottery barn catalog.

At the end of the day, I think this will largely sort itself out even if YIMBYs get their way. There’s only so much demand for expensive condos and townhomes. There’s actually a ton of these on the market, even walkable to metro, and the pool of buyers is not that big. And developers won’t just magically drop prices to make them less expensive (which won’t work because of labor costs plus the cost to acquire teardown properties) — they just won’t build them at all.  [/quote]

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