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p.s. The market dictates pricing, not the shitshack owners. 
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The shitshack owners are the ones being NIMBYs and protesting against workforce housing, and even enough non-workforce housing from being built because they are playing the supply vs demand game. The thing is, it’s gotten to a very unhealthy point where the supply is significantly lower than the demand. If a woman as wealthy as OP, who makes 50% above the region median can only afford a condo in an average school district, that means the 50% below her can’t even afford that. If you keep pushing the working-class further and further away, who do you expect to support your privileged lifestyles? Do DCUMers seriously think working-class people will come to Arlington and Bethesda from Upper Marlboro to work a minimum wage job, when there’s plenty of those jobs where they live? Discovery, Inc helped revitalize Silver Spring from white-flight, but now that the “appreciate my house above what is reasonable” gentrification crowd have ruined it and the surrounding desirable areas, they fled SS for Tennessee. Other tech firms have been leaving for Frederick as well. You have to consider that a significant portion of white-collar jobs in DC are NOT federal jobs, there’s also a significant amount of white-collar corporate jobs, and they’re starting to leave even though we’re not at the point of San Francisco yet. That is a bad sign. [/quote]

PP has housing she can afford. She can’t afford a SFH sh*tshack. Also, Discovery moved to NYC, so it wasn’t because housing prices in Silver Spring were too high. I have friends who worked there, and didn’t move because they couldn’t afford Manhattan or nearby suburbs. The company relocated to be closer to the industry to attract talent. [/quote]

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