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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think all of this proves that HOAs are in fact good.[/quote]

All of this proves that for people who want to control what their neighbors do with their property, they should have moved to a neighborhood with an HOA.[/quote]
You mistake control with agreement for mutual benefit, i.e. solving a collective action problem.[/quote]

Ah yes, the “collective action problem” of living near multifamily housing. Might as well start getting used to it.[/quote]
You’re one of those people that hate Haussmann’s renovation of Paris.[/quote]

Paris is lovely! It's one of the densest, most livable cities in the world. It's actually the ubiquity of mid-rise multifamily buildings, with ground-floor retail and restaurants, throughout the city that makes it so livable. We should try it!
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So would all the poor people in this scenario live in high rises in Prince William County?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/12/02/how-the-rise-of-american-style-segregation-is-feeding-division-in-europe/[/quote]
That’s the goal.[/quote]

No, we should build homes for them as part of mixed-income neighborhoods.[/quote]

Ok, so not like Paris then.

Seems like you should be requesting that the county board mandate that 1/3 of all new missing middle units be permanently affordable if you want your vision to be a reality. [/quote]

Paris’ challenge is that its urban core is mostly built-out. It’d have to knock down mid-rises to build high-rises. We don’t have that problem. Almost 80% of our residential land is single family houses. We can add a bunch more housing by converting those.[/quote]
This is not true. Paris heavily restricts the ability to redevelop properties to increase density where market demand clearly exists. That is the problem. The reason why they do that is because they believe that is because they prioritize the non-economic community benefits derived from maintaining the aesthetic to the benefit of adding more dense housing. [/quote]

So how about we allow enough denser housing until we’re as built out as Paris?[/quote]
Or alternatively, stop using European cities as a model/ideal if you are promoting prioritization of private property rights.[/quote]

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