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How is it a crisis if there is tons of affordable housing in VA and Md with easy city access? 
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I live in Va and I am not sure what the hell you are talking about.  We had a similar housing shortage here, even before Amazon and its getting worse.  Arlington and Alexandria are facing substantial loss of market rate affordable units, and are both scrambling to create/preserve committed affordable units. There is also activity to create AH in Falls Church and Fairfax, and this was a big issue in the recent Board of Supervisors election in Fairfax County.  To address shortages at higher income levels, there is massive new construction across NoVa,  some in Alexandria, more in Arlington, some in Falls Church, and in several parts of Fairfax (and now even Loudoun and PWC are doing transit oriented development).     Plus easy city access is questionable, and with highways maxed out major new transit investments are needed.

So you probably really mean Maryland.  But when you look closer you will see MoCo has the same issues as NoVa.  So you really mean PG County.   So we are talking about the old solution, send the poors to PG.

But as you will note even parts of PG (like Hyattsville) are getting gentrified.  And of course most of PG does not have great access - it has poor access to its metro stops, and congested highways.

So really you mean a relatively small area within walking distance of the PG metro stations.

Most of which are filled with existing SFHs, which are occupied by families.[/quote]

Are they putting high rises in the middle of single family home neighborhoods in places like Falls Church, or in new developments or along major thoroughfares with apartment buildings?[/quote]

Depends what you mean by "in the middle of" Falls Church they are mostly on Washington and on Broad - not at all far from detached SFHs (and right across the street from THs)

In Rosslyn - Ballston in North Arlington the County has created a buffer of THs between the denser apts and detached SFHs.  No such buffer along Columbia Pike, but the height there is more limited.

Could you give an example from DC of what you mean? [/quote]

Well in DC we have and continue to have apartment buildings go in as new development zones, including along Wisconsin Ave., obviously the ballpark etc. I'm confused where the Mayor would put 1,500 more units (as a fraction of other units? Or self contained?) in rock creek park west.  Once you get off the main roads its all single family and duplex.[/quote

What "new development zones" are you referring to? There is no such thing actually but maybe you could articulate what it is you think you are saying?

[b]Aside from the Fannie Mae project very few new projects have been built or are even planned for Wisconsin Avenue.[/b]

But there is definitely room for additional development on Wisconsin Avenue - lots of surface parking lots and 3-4 story 50-60 year old buildings that are near the end of their useful life.   And there are some lots on Upper CT as well though not many.

But it is not that hard to get several thousand new units in Rock Creek West though it is an open question how the mayor will get her affordable housing units which the free market alone will not yield.[/quote]

This is patently untrue, pure Greater Greater Washington propaganda.

There's Fannie Mae, and there's the massive, 716-unit residential/retail development coming directly to the north of it:

https://www.skiarch.com/projects/4000-wisconsin-avenue/

There's a planned six-story apartment building at Wisconsin and Macomb:

https://www.bisnow.com/washington-dc/news/multifamily/six-story-apartment-building-planned-to-replace-single-family-home-on-wisconsin-avenue-corner-98491

146-unit building coming to Wisconsin just above Brandywine:

http://www.urbaninvestmentpartners.com/project/broadcast/

The 100 units at 4000 Brandywine have been leasing for a while:

http://www.urbaninvestmentpartners.com/project/4000brandywine/

41-unit building coming to the Dancing Crab/Tenley Gastropub site:

https://dc.urbanturf.com/pipeline/755/Dancing_Crab_Redevelopment

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So basically any parcel with a new building is a "new development zone"?

And a six story building, with a few dozen units, is "massive"? [/quote]

It's not a few dozen, it's more than 1,000 units when you add the two developments together (again, they're going to be right next door to each other).

So yes, that's massive by any definition. I know this goes against the propaganda pushed by David Alpert and his sycophants, but yes, there is new housing going up in Upper NW. Actually a lot of it. Why some people go to great lengths to deny clear facts is absolutely baffling. [/quote]

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