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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a good disinformation effort: it mixes racial division with developer division and tries to falsely label as Trumpers advocates for a fairer housing economy.

This post below is a useful study, really.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone likes our boring, leafy, walkable, green, [b]low skyline city[/b] with its smattering of commercial hubs. Literally, everyone likes that about DC. If you don't, you go to a tastier city.[/quote]
YIMBYs disagree. They believe the height limits are racist.[/quote]

It's because Trumper political operatives hired by big developers looking for windfall profits from zoning changes call the height limit racist.[/quote]

The reality is that it is mostly older, white NIMBYs who are blocking adding housing units,[b] because of selfish concerns of getting their own housing value as high as possible.
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The way Trumpers enter is that Republicans want to do everything they can to harm blue cities, including DC. Republicans want to harm everyone in DC including both white and black people that live here.  The GOP elite, mostly white, southern, male, and mediocre, hate people who live in DC. It’s mainly jealously, and racism, mixed together.

The way to fight this is for all of us to band together in DC. Don’t let conservatives divide us on racial lines. Yes, Ward 3 people will need to give up something to allow fourplexes by-right everywhere, including places like Foxhall.  But this will be good for the whole city. And meanwhile Bowser needs to stop pitting different communities in the city against one another.

The people that want to hurt DC are Republicans. They’re the people we should fight.  Together.

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LOL, we live in a capitalist country. I'm not sure you can call people 'selfish' for trying to better themselves and leave something to their families within that framework.[/quote]

+1. If so, pretty much everyone is selfish. For those of us who worked hard to own our own homes (meaning Daddy didn’t buy it for us), our homes are our most important asset. I’m not a Republican, but I sure as hell care about how much my home is worth. [/quote]

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