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If you consider human nature, then it only will become "socially acceptable" when the alternatives to apartment living become exorbitant enough that it's not affordable to anyone but the wealthiest .01%.  Until then there will be this economic hardship stigma attached to families choosing to live in apartments when supply of private homes exists in abundance, because for majority of people it's more desirable to raise a family.   Huge luxury apartments in nice neighborhoods are the only exception, but they are not economically plausible like SFHs and are indeed luxury, so many families forgo them in favor of private homes in good school districts. [/quote]

As noted, private homes will not "exist in abundance" within a few miles of dowtown DC (say within the diamond of DC, Arlington, east Alexandria) much longer.  They won't be as expensive as houses in Manhattan or North Brooklyn  - they won't be limited to the wealthies .01%, but perhaps to wealthiest 10%.

IME the economic stigma of lviing in an apt has less to do, even now, with the market realities of DC today, than with where and when people grew up.  People who moved here from  lower cost metro areas, or who grew up around here a long time ago, when RE was cheaper still have that stigma, and will commute VERY far to get a detached SFH.

People who are younger, or grew up in a higher cost metro, have much less of that.  It also depends on who they know - when they actually spend time with families who are like them, but living in apts, they begin to realize its not so terrible. [/quote]

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