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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not everyone can live in DuPont Circle. Sorry![/quote]

More people could live there than do, and the same is true for plenty of other close in, transit served places.  Dupont circle is served by a metro station that was NOT built by locals who currently live there, why shouldn't we leverage it further?  And its walking distance to the White House and gads of jobs, why shouldn't we have more people living walking distance to work?

And we wouldn't do this only at Dupont, but at lots and lots of close in and metro served locations.   [b]Everyone can and should have more and better housing choices than they do now.[/b] [/quote]

This is such a basic free-market argument, but when you make it, people yell "Socialism!" It's weird.[/quote]

Socialism to them is not about govt intervention in the market (they LIKE govt intervention in the market) Socialism is the notion that it should be easier for people 'inferior' to them - poorer, or younger or just less able to afford what they have for whatever reason - to get  what they have.

They don't care if what makes it easier is MORE govt intervention, or deregulation.  If it lessens the exclusivity of what they have its "socialism".  Capitalism to them is not the defense of private property (if it were they would support the right of someone to redevelop their property as they see fit) but the defense of what they see as markers of their status, and thus their virtue. [/quote]

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