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You pick your neighborhood because of the characters of the residences there!  You can always change/remodel/rebuild your residence; you yourself can't change the character of the neighboring residences.  If you buy a SFH in a neighborhood, you want a neighborhood of SFHs, not something else.   The end result of upzoning will be the departure of folks from DC.  DC has done well financially over the last several decades, because they wealthy have done well.  If you drive them out, you lose your tax base.   What COVID has made clear is that many of these folks do not need to be in DC.  In fact, the number of folks working remotely from beach houses is huge.

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The wealthy aren't leaving DC. It is where things happen, where the action is. The US is shifting to the global urban model where the dontowns have the wealthy and the middle and lower classes are forced to the suburbs and related inconvenicenes of bad location and housing stock.
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Yes. They are.  And they certainly will even more so if upzoning continues to be pushed.[/quote]

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