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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there was a way for governments to create lots of affordable housing in places where many people want to live, they would have figured it out by now.

People act like these issues are new, but cities like New York have been dealing with these questions for at least 150 years. And yet NYC is the (or among the) most expensive housing markets in the US (and also the most densely populated).

Folks on this thread seem to think there's easy answers here, but if there were, someone or some place, like NYC, would have already done it by now. [/quote]

This. [/quote]

+1 - Check out multifamily housing in Vienna/Tysons. None of it is affordable (except for the section 8 housing in Vienna). All this will possibly do is create expensive duplexes.

And while I am pretty liberal, I also don't like the state gov't overruling local ordinances. If these legislators want their locality to enact a law like this, go run for local government. It's a bad look. [/quote]

[b]Expensive duplexes fit more people than expensive SFHs.[/b][/quote]

It's true.

[b]Also, why do we have the Mall?[/b] Do we really need it? Do you know how many duplexes could fit there? Also, the Capitol. Tear it down. Too big. No one even lives there! We could fit so many duplexes there. Same with all these museums. Can't people just Google things they want to know or see?

Come to think of it, you know what fits more people than expensive duplexes? Expensive triplexes.

Tear down all the duplexes. Put up triplexes. [/quote]

We have the Mall because the McMillan Commission decided in 1902 that a vast expanse of open space was more suitable than the housing, commercial buildings, and railroad tracks that occupied the area at the time.

"City Beautiful" ideas produced some good-looking monuments but were not notably concerned with livable cities.

I don't have a problem with triplexes.[/quote]

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