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There is tons of land. Tons of it. You are promoting a false binary choice.

You clearly only want more housing where you want it and no where else.

What you want to do is to prevent people of color and immigrants from getting access to the ladder of wealth in this country because you want to “preserve farmland”. Please go and take a cross country flight and then look down.[/quote]

Sure, if you want to plow under fields in Nebraska, then there is plenty of land. If you are talking about the DC region, there is a finite amount of land. But people don't want to live in Nebraska or many other midwestern/plains states, as the census and migration numbers illustrate. So when you are talking about the desireable urban centers - DC, NY, SF, LA etc, land is scarce, and the only way to keep up with housing demand is to keep building more housing, and in a sustainable manner.

The ladder of wealth does not only come in single family homes. And in fact, for many, the cost to own a car and commute more than an hour each way is far greater than what can be accumulated by owning a smaller place, closer in, with no car/insurance/maintenance costs.[/quote]
There used to be farms on Long Island, now there are not. It is not the end of the world. Get a grip.

You clearly are not who you present yourself. You have a very specific and deterministic view. One might even say that you are an ideologue.

You are now just like the NIMBYs you proclaim to be against because you are trying to preserve something too. If you are serious about affordable housing you would be less ideological. Clearly you are not serious. [/quote]

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