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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My big issue is David Alpert's hypocrisy. GGW says we need to get automobiles off the road ... except for David Alpert, who owns a car. GGW says we need more density near transit stations ... except for David Alpert, who lives in a single-family home two blocks from the Dupont Metro station, something his blog has railed against for years now. Doesn't apply to him, though. GGW says we need to take away power from ANCs, who are filled with retired busybodies with nothing else to do in their lives but complain. David Alpert, who holds no discernible job, gets to spend his days complaining in front of various DC committees because ... why? Because he knows better than everyone else? Because he's rich?

And the claim that GGW isn't pro-developer doesn't hold water, considering they take funding from developers.[/quote]

Yes. This. So much this.

As with anything else that would like to bill itself as a social movement... urbanists or YIMBYs or housing activists or whatever they want to call themselves would have a lot more people on their team if they weren't so hypocritical and abrasive. Some of them are well-meaning civic-minded youth who would like more bike lanes and transit options and more bite-sized apartments for urban living. But then they name call everyone who disagrees with them as a NIMBY, and a fair number of them it's clear all they really want to do is make money off flipping their home into a duplex.[/quote]

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