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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This whole debate boils down to the frustrated expectations of 30-year old white guys.

It's always some guy who moved to Washington from Pennsylvania. Back home, he grew up in a big house in a nice neighborhood. His parents made a lot of money. He studied hard and went to a good school and then moved here.

But he went into a profession that pays peanuts and he realized he's never going to be able to afford a place like where he grew up. He has champagne taste and a beer budget. Now he is lobbying politicians to fix everything for him, to make things more like they were back home. He wants them to change the zoning laws to create more units so that he can live in neighborhoods he'd otherwise never be able to afford and so he doesn't have to have long commutes or worry about crime. All the people worried about shady real estate developers and overcrowded schools and disappearing green space and ugly condo developments can take a hike.

You want to know what white privilege looks like? This is what white privilege looks like. [/quote]

it's really mostly liberal male urban planners who are perplexed why the real world doesn't work like their utopian urban planning textbooks

David Albert having a SFH in the city make their heads explode too[/quote]

[b]We restrict supply, we get high prices. Works exactly like my econ textbooks said.[/b]

And there is nothing wrong with a person buying a SFH in the city.  Its pushing for policies that privilege that, or otherwise interfere with good solutions, that is the problem.  Its about policies, not about private choices.

Also the attacks on individuals, esp on DA, here in an anon forum,  are repulsive.     [/quote]

Actually economists say adding to the housing stock would not reduce prices (things are more complicated than you suggest). For example, here is a paper by Federal Reserve economists: https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/files/2018035pap.pdf[/quote]

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