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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
This is utter nonsense.

If you bought a house 15 years ago in Brookland or Petworth or Eckington or along H Street or any number of other historically black neighborhoods, the value of your home would have grown several times as fast as if you had bought in Tenleytown.

PG County prices are low because white people (like those pushing to change zoning laws) are afraid of being in predominantly black neighborhoods and won't move there (that is, until someone else gentrifies it for them -- by which time they'll then complain PG county is too expensive). [/quote]

I bought in Petworth more than a decade ago, lived there for nine years, sold my house and bought in Ward 3, and now that I'm here, I, also, think home prices in Tenleytown are too expensive and the city should do something to make it way easier for people with less money than I have to move here. No one is pushing to change zoning in places like Petworth, which is already zoned for more density than Tenleytown is; your apparent belief that self-interest by single young white men is the only reason anyone wants to upzone Tenleytown is wrong. Why would a single person in their 20s want to live in Tenleytown? The idea is to make it more affordable for families.[/quote]

Increasing density is anti-family. People with kids don't want to live in friggin' condos. Condos are for people who don't have children. [/quote]

No, [i]you[/i] don't want to live in a condo with kids. That doesn't mean no one does. Condos in neighborhoods with good public schools could be for people with children who don't have the money to buy a house there.[/quote]

Oh, I see. So no single people in their 20s want to live in Tenleytown? But parents are totally cool with condos? Right. Get back to us when you have kids.  [/quote]

Not PP, but I have kids and live in Tenleytown. Would never have dreamed of moving here before I had kids. We have several friends who live in condos with kids, and at any rate, it hardly seems inconceivable that there is a market for condos in-bounds for good public schools that cost less than single-family homes do. Just because you and I would make a different choice doesn’t mean we should make it impossible for people who would be happy living in a condo — or trading off space for a guaranteed school path they can afford — to live here. [/quote]
This. I don’t understand people who say you can’t have kids in a condo, then buy an overpriced monstrosity house with 5 bedrooms and a giant yard that their kids have no interest in ever using. The smaller the home, the better. That way kids can bond with their families instead of having their iPhones raise them in a giant house where you never talk. [/quote]

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