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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're disagreeing with the facts that there needs to be housing in cities and that multi-family housing provides more housing units per land area than single-family houses with yards? Really?[/quote]

How much housing does the city need? Just out of curiosity. We have a population of 700K right now and as of the 2000 Census we had 275,000 dwellings (Single family attached + Detached, plus multi person buildings, plus mobile homes (DC has 203 mobile homes). So what is the magic number? If in the last 20 years 25K units were built (very conservative assumption there) we have around 300K units. How many more units do we want to build? 100K, 200K??? What is the magic number and where are we getting that number from? I am genuinely curious. You can look online right now, there are thousands of homes and apartments available right now across the city to move in this week.[/quote]

You're using the "The fact that there are houses for sale and apartments available for rent proves that we don't need any more housing" argument.[/quote]

No, my question was how much housing do we need. I just threw in available housing to illustrate that there is housing today. I am asking how much housing we want? Sorry, I did not mean for it to be an either or argument. Two separate statements.[/quote]

Well, the mayor has set a goal of 36,000 new units built by 2025, with 12,000 of those units explicitly in the "affordable" category.[/quote]

If there is existing housing on the market, why not offer subsidies to essential services people who want to live in the city and call it a day?[/quote]

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