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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nobody “needs” a SFH. Just because you are able to afford one thanks to your white privilege and generational wealth, does not make it right.

There needs to be more options in expensive areas for marginalized people and low income families. It’s not fair to keep building McMansions to keep people of color out of neighborhoods.

The sooner we can stop building new SFH’s, the better for society. [/quote]

This is all such a lie.

The only people pushing to get rid of single-family homes are 30-year old white guys who don't want to have to move into predominantly black neighborhoods, where affordable housing is plentiful. [/quote]

I am a married white guy in my 40s who agrees with the idea of ending SFH zoning in my neighborhood in Ward 3 so more marginalized and poor people can afford to live here. Do I disprove your theory?[/quote]

No, because you're either a liar or a fool or both. The idea this is going to lead to affordable housing is completely and totally preposterous. No one can even explain how that would happen. [/quote]

I mean, there are 22 pages of posts here, some of which do go into explaining exactly how that would happen, but I guess if you see anyone who disagrees with you as either a liar or a fool, it's easy to dismiss those.[/quote]

[b]I've read every post, and there isn't a single one that offers a coherent explanation of how any of this leads to affordable housing.

If any of this was actually true, why can't anyone explain it?

It's not an outrageous request to say tell me how that would work[/b]. [/quote]

Increasing density will drive housing prices up, not down.

If you pack lots of people into an area, then lots of businesses will want to be there too. Stores, restaurants, bars will move in. That will attract more people, which will attract more businesses. Pretty soon you've created a hip neighborhood where everyone wants to live, and housing prices go to the moon.

This has happened over and over in Washington.

It is gentrification on steroids. [/quote]

This just isn’t true in neighborhoods that are already expensive and density-restricted. It doesn’t make any sense to fret about the gentrification of Tenleytown. [/quote]

it's true pretty much everywhere else in the city. look what happened to navy yard.[/quote]

Navy Yard isn't a great point of comparison to upper Ward 3, for a few reasons. Before the city started redeveloping Navy Yard in 2005, there wasn't previously a lot of housing of any kind there; it was primarily light industrial businesses and nightclubs, as well as some lower-income housing, which -- it's true -- was mostly wiped out and the residents displaced. Tenleytown and Friendship Heights already have housing, and also businesses that cater to residential areas, and it's all already expensive. It is almost impossible to imagine, though, any kind of redevelopment scheme that would end with Tenleytown property owners will be displaced. Also, there are two stadiums in Navy Yard that also helped attract the businesses there, not just the new condos; there are no professional sports teams playing in upper NW.[/quote]

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