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[quote=Anonymous]Perversely, homeowners cannot get anything done with DCRA. Developers get away with anything, but homeowners cannot even put a new sink in the basement because they're suspected of wanting to turn it into a rental. The endless run around, the waiting in line for ten half-days in a row to speak to this or that team at DCRA, and the realization that it's both inflexible and unpredictable - you can get any opinion and its opposite from different staff on different days, or depending on who you are, who your contractor is. Meanwhile, the pros do whatever the heck they want to neighbors' foundations, sightlines, safety, and build to whatever the heck height and depth and width because we need more homes.

I don't trust this thread. It reeks of greedy developers. 
The reality in this city is that any new higher density build only adds homes that are vastly more expensive than existing homes. Those vastly more expensive and smaller condos or apartments make everything around them more expensive by extension. If the 400sqft 1bd condo down the block if $400k, surely my 2400sqft is worth more than $800k, no? And sure, our city is oddly underdeveloped as cities go. But don't try to bullshit me that building denser has anything to do with social justice, and displacement. Home prices will continue to go up, density will likely go up, and poor people will continue to be displaced, and middle class homeowners will also be displaced from being sandwiched between the intense pushiness of developers and DCRA's anti-homeowner practices.

New builds are not solving any crises.
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