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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hear this constantly asserted, as if it were self-evidently true, but cannot figure out how it could possibly be correct. There's 700,000 people in the District. There's 5 million in the suburbs. If you add 30,000 housing units in DC, they will instantly be soaked up by people in the suburbs looking for shorter commutes. As people move into DC from Falls Church and Rockville and Fairfax, their old places will open up for other people. Other people will move into those places from suburbs even further out, which will open up slots in places like Chantilly or Columbia or wherever else those people are coming from and that would put downward pressure on housing prices in the suburbs they've left. But how does any of that lead to affordable housing in DC?[/quote] 1. Our housing problem is regional. Reducing the cost of housing in the far suburbs is also good. Plus the people who move are better off at each step. 2. The suburbs are looking at the issue as well. Pro housing groups are supporting more development in MoCo, in Arlington, in Alexandria, etc. The metropolitan washington council of government is setting regional goals, with targets for each jurisdiction 3. To the extent more people live closer in, this reduces road congestion, pollution, traffic accidents, etc. [/quote] That isn't the argument the upzoning crowd makes though. They say it will lead to affordable housing in the District, and I want to know how that will happen. [/quote] The "upzoning crowd" says that upzoning will lead to a greater supply of housing in the District, and it will.[/quote]
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