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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of "downtown" Arlington; Cathedral Commons, the Wharf, Navy Yard, 14th Street, H Street, U Street, Bethesda Row, Pentagon Row, I could go on, just in the DC area.[/quote]

Haven’t all those places gotten MORE expensive?[/quote]

When I was in grad school at Georgetown, I rented a studio in Arlington near Ft. Myer at $270 a month.  The building was torn down about 10 years ago and now rents are about $2,500 a month for a one bedroom.  Laughs on the building owner because Arlington County is about to put several affordable housing buildings across the street. They talk about neighborhoods changing -- from bad to good and now back to bad thanks to YIMBY[/quote]

So you think the property owner should still be providing a $270/mo rent in an area with million dollar + condos? I thought we lived in a capitalist society and you want communism.[/quote]

What an odd interpretation.  I simply said that an inexpensive apartment building was replaced by an expensive apartment building.  Now, Arlington County is building affordable housing across the street from the expensive apartment building.  An area that was once inexpensive, became expensive, and now will become inexpensive again because of the affordable housing being built in the area which will be inexpensive.[/quote]

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