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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Observation:  This thread is almost entirely focused on the YIMBY/NIMBY debate.  I'm sure DCUM is not a representative sample, but it surprises me that there aren't a lot of other issues that come up in making this decision....[/quote]

It’s so important for me because it signals what a person prioritizes. I think YIMBYs will send us down a path where we attract moochers. There is enough housing as is in Moco (including enough affordable housing) and we don’t need to be attracting and housing every low income person in the DMV. As a PP indicated, Moco has the most affordable housing by far in this area (and you get great schools also), and people who claim otherwise are ignoring reality. Just check Redfin and Zillow and you can see this for yourself (keeping in mind that the median HHI in Moco is $170k).

[b]The goal should be jobs and economic development, and only when that happens should we discuss building more housing. [/b]Anyone who is a YIMBY fails to understand this basic concept. [/quote]

If this happens, developers will race in to build more housing. Housing follows jobs, not the other way around. [/quote]

That's the way it should work. But in Moco, the government distorts things by giving tax breaks and handouts to developers, and by providing incentives to moochers to live here, and so the housing gets build without the jobs to support it.[/quote]

Actually it doesn’t. There’s been almost no growth in the housing stock since Doug Duncan was executive. These handouts just bumped up profits for the developers who got them. [/quote]

All those houses at Clarksburg outlet?

The houses at Watkins Mill extended? [/quote]

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