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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]YIMBY's love cloaking themselves in woke terminology and then guilting areas into YIMBY priorities and then feigning shock when the programs never amount to anything.

The densification argument is a classic YIMBY argument. Densification is not a new concept. Tell me where in DC housing prices have gone down or been stabilized based on new construction? How many below market rate houses are in the Navy Yard area? How many of those houses have families with kids in them? How many new schools have been built to accommodate the newly attracted families?

YIMBY is code for I have money invested in something involved with development.[/quote]

Exactly.  The most visible spokesman for densification in upper NW, a director of Ward 3 Vision, is a former Trump operative who uses the terminology of the woke left (affordability, equity, inclusion, fighting climate change) to secure windfall profit opportunities through zoning changes for the big developers who retained him.  Yet the consulting firm he owns twice worked as chief pollster for Donald J. Trump, the president who used dog whistles to "save the suburbs" from affordable housing and the most anti-climate, anti-equity, anti-inclusion president in modern US history.  The guy uses focus groups to test messaging to sell the agendas of unpalatable candidates, but this is beyond cynical even by DC standards.  And yet the local politicians seem to accept at face value woke-sounding arguments pushed by Trumpers, to give the developers what they want.[/quote]

How dare anyone make money! The nerve of some people? Taking empty land and putting houses and businesses there. How dare they?[/quote]
Scamming people is good now?[/quote]

You live in a house built by a developer. Did you get scammed?

Didn't think so.[/quote]

"You live in a house built by a developer" is such a tired trope.[/quote]

It's not a tired trope, it's literally true. You live in housing where there didn't used to be housing, be it a greenfield, warehouse, former commercial space, or whatever, and somebody thought they could make a buck by building housing there.

Even if you built your house all by yourself, you still performed an implicit calculation that it was more lucrative for you to build your own house than buy one from someone else.[/quote]
It’s not just a trope, it’s cliché and a meme.

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