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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you think all of the townhomes, pseudo townhomes, and condos are? That’s middle housing and DMV is an outlier that it is actually building it.

What you socialists forget though is the market. Many don’t want to live with shared walls and overcrowded streets, far from jobs. At least not at the minimum price point that these things can be built for. That’s why there is a lack of housing at an entry level.

That and starter homes are a terrible investment and for condos basically entrapment.

In other areas, when home prices exceed what the majority of the market can pay, developers are building smaller to meet the price point.

Again it’s the market. Not just zoning, which is relatively permissive when it comes to density around here.

Never mind you or anyone else can buy in Anacostia right now. Super affordable. The problem is everything else, like safety and schools. Not zoning.[/quote]

[b]"Single-family homes take up a lot of space in the District"
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https://ggwash.org/view/71576/heres-how-much-of-dcs-housing-consists-of-single-family-homes[/quote]
This image is either poorly designed or intetionally manipulative. If they changed the color of "Coop/Conversion" from violet to another color it would tell a much different story. Very, very little of DC is freestanding SFM. It is so stupid to argue otherwise.

There are also tons of townhomes in MoCo, like tons. They are everywhere and new ones are being built all of the time. The only way to miss them is to intentionally do so. They are unaffordable, just like a brownstone in Manhattan or Brooklyn is unaffordable. Big city living is expensive.

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