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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here’s an interesting link to 25 new developments coming on line now or shortly, most in DC.  The development lobby that has effectively captured the mayor’s office claims that DC needs to upzone to build many more of these, especially west of Rock Creek Park.  So much for  “affordable housing.”

https://dc.urbanturf.com/articles/blog/a-virtual-tour-of-more-than-25-dc-area-developments/16643
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The message: Poor people need to get out. [/quote]

When poor people are displaced to suburbs they lose access to jobs and services. Look at what happened to the public housing residents of MD who were moved to places like Glen Bernie, Beltsville, and Gaithersburg.[/quote]

Nope this is just a lie

The people who move to those suburbs aren’t poor - they are middle class - they live there and commute because it’s all they can afford because low income people get free or very cheap nice housing  closer in
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It’s apparently a crime for low income people to have to commute to work but it’s ok for a middle class person to do it[/b]

It’s ridiculous they way people say that there are no low income jobs in the suburbs. Of course there are! Strip malls, shopping centers, restaurants are available en masse in every DC suburb[/quote]

True that.

When policies focus on helping the lower income population at the direct detriment of middle class families, that is a huge failure in policy.  And, we see that again and again.  [/quote]

Studies have shown that the lower your income the greater the burden of a long commute because the lost wages disproportionately impact you.

But the answer is to build enough housing in the city (and elsewhere) for the middle class and the working class - DC actually provides a lot of heavily subsidized housing and has plenty of housing for the upper middle class and upper class since the wealthy in particular can always bid prices up but falls short on housing for the middle class and lower income working class who may not qualify for subsidized housing.

So the biggest failure in policy is simply in not building enough housing.  But many DC homeowners don't care if DC becomes another San Francisco and why should they as they would benefit from housing inflation and don't care about [b]the burden that imposes on others or about living in a city with such inequities[/b]. [/quote]

Are we a fully socialist country now? Why not raze everything and build communist style housing blocs? I'm sure people would vie to live in DC then.[/quote]

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