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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Housing is never going to be affordable in a top ten market like DC. This is a global phenomenon. It's true in large cities in  Europe, Asia and South America. If you want cheap housing, it's going to require government subsidies and price controls. A capitalist market - up zoning or no - upzoning - is going to drive costs up every year. The only way to stop that rise is to regulate prices. And that is a horrible, horrible idea.[/quote]
These are good points. When you combine the anti-market philosophy with the authoritarian tendencies it’s a bit troubling. But thankfully these people are only organizing around property and zoning. Imagine if this was Europe and they formed a political party. In a case of extreme horseshoe theory they would rule this country like Marshall Tito ruled Yugoslavia, including forcing everyone to live in cookie cutter cement apartment blocks. Curios if Tito forced exercise like Mao, because they would probably send out goon squads to disappear people who don’t ride bikes. [/quote]

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