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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly.  Why not continue to invest in wards 7 and 8?  Better housing - better retail - better schools.   All of which is possible.  Naval Yard and the area around the Wharf look great. [/quote]

We can either destroy the SFH neighborhoods that want to preserve their SFH neighborhoods, or we can invest in parts of the city that need investment.   Latter is better.  The only people who want to upzone are small time developers who simply want to convert a SFH to a duplex or triplex.  Real difficult.  I can do that, and I have nothing to do with the real estate business.  [/quote]

The sweet spot for developers now is to build infill or convert large houses to "gentle density" multi-family in established neighborhoods.  If the building is nine units or less, "inclusive zoning" requirements (what passes for "affordable" housing in DC, but is not really) don't apply,.  So the developer can charge market-rate for the units, which is probably needs to do because it has to spread costs among a relatively modest number of units in each "gentle density" building.[/quote]
That is only the “sweet spot” because it is currently being rewarded through regulatory incentives. [/quote]

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