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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So many boomer brain worms in this thread! You anti urbanist people get less and less credible the more you talk.[/quote]

Sad little Millennial can’t afford a home and dreams that changing zoning regs will somehow make housing affordable for “they.”[/quote]

The sad thing is that people like you play it both ways. When someone is an apartment-dweller and advocates for upzoning, you accuse them of being jealous of SFH-dwellers and wanting to ruin what they can't have. When someone is a SFH-dweller and advocates for upzoning, you call them a hypocrite who wants to dictate how everyone else should live.

Who exactly is allowed to advocate for upzoning?[/quote]

Haha. I didn’t intend to say you were not qualified to argue.. I was pointing out your argument isn’t qualified by reason. Why don’t need more crap housing in dc - there are already plenty of condos.[/quote]

It most certainly is qualified by reason. Building more housing slows the rate of growth in housing prices. Sorry to hear that you're triggered by facts![/quote]

What a neat trick. Have you told developers that? I’m sure they’ll be racing to build more housing when they find out that building more housing will kill their margins. [/quote]

You're not doing a very good job of communicating a cohesive argument. Developers would love to build more housing in DC but are stymied by zoning regulations, height limits, onerous historic district guidelines, etc.

Or is this just a failed attempt to be clever?[/quote]

Supply isn’t driven by the number of approved units. It’s driven by demand at the high end of the market, which is driven by household incomes. That’s a much more coherent argument than market urbanism.

You make the mistake of assuming that units tied up by zoning or historic preservation would be delivered in addition to the other units that were actually built. It’s much more likely that only one or the other would be delivered at/near the same time unless demand at the high end of the market increases.

If developers wanted to build more, they could. They’re not building as much as is allowed. Therefore, regulation is not the primary constraint on deliveries. It must be something else. [/quote]

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