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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When Bethesda, Silver Spring, Wheaton first experienced housing booms, those developments could legitimately characterized as sprawl. The people who decided to live there could have bought row homes in the city instead. The commute is longer now but it’s the same idea for Clarksburg and Frederick. Building more rentals in Bethesda won’t magically make single family home prices drop there. The best way to make single family home prices drop is to build more single family homes. [/quote]

I guess it's very on-character for DCUM, though, to decide that to the extent there even is a housing crisis, it's about a shortage of detached uniplexes, and the solution is to build more detached uniplexes ... somewhere.[/quote]

That part of the market has seen the biggest price increases. It’s simple supply and demand that detached uniplexes are where the greatest shortage/need is. Wouldn’t you agree?[/quote]

No. There is no such thing as "simple supply and demand" in such a non-free market.[/quote]

So it’s simple as supply and demand except when supply and demand provide an answer that you don’t like. [/quote]

The supply and demand answer is build more single family houses. This is what people want to buy.[/quote]

So, if more SFHs are wanted, why is the County pushing upzoning.[/quote]

Because detached SFHs are very space intensive, both for the house itself and the transportation infrastructure they require. The county is out of space they can add them without having to do major infrastructure upgrades. The county doesn't have the money to build out that infrastructure and surely doesn't have the money to maintain it either.

The county still wants to grow, for some reason no one will really explain, so there isn't much to do but upzone. Some people want a winner (SFH) and loser (apartment towers/2 HR commute) strategy, while others want more of a middle-ground (X-plexes/Townhomes) approach. Neither approach is perfect, but option 1 is just going to feed the politics of resentment. [/quote]

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