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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A lot of people on this thread with champagne tastes who are on beer budgets.[/quote]

This thread is unnerving in the sense that there are a bunch of posters with lofty ideals who think “housing should be a right”. I’m really concerned the younger generation has eaten up a bunch of socialist values masquerading as “equity” proposals.

If you can’t afford a $4m house in a ritzy area, I’m sorry. It’s not in the cards. You don’t need to cram a fking project in a historic neighborhood. Just make a bad neighborhood that’s cheaper, better. But then that’s gentrification and that bad.[/quote]

The Smart Growth lobby plays on that.  They tell DC politicians that they can make gentrification pressures go away if only they let developers turn Ward 3 into the Navy Yard.  That way, residents who "aren't from DC" won't need to move into other neighborhoods.  Not only is that offensive, it's also likely not correct.  It's not like Cathedral Commons in upper Northwest is considered as cool as U Street or H Street, nor it is (or "pale" replications thereof) ever likely to be.  [/quote]

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