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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It did nothing of the sort. Changing the underlying future land use map doesn't raise the value. They would still have to go through the zoning process, which in Cleveland Park, is an uphill battle. And then, even with that, they would have to get through Preservation.

So, no, not really.[/quote]

So, with all that, what was the point of Cheh's spectacular FLUM up in Cleveland Park?  [/quote]

I presume to at least give the appearance of trying to address the affordable housing situation in the District while also providing an opportunity for property owners to help salvage the dying commercial area in Cleveland Park. [/quote]
Turning a historic theater into luxury apartments will do absolutely nothing to address affordable housing in DC. Further more, in case you have not noticed, housing is and will always be expensive where there are high paying jobs and job growth. Welcome to capitalism. If you want housing to be cheaper in DC you are saying that you want DC to be economically poorer. So good luck with that. [/quote]

So where should the cleaning crew for your law office work? Or teachers, policemen, firefighters? What about the server at your favorite coffee spot? 
Affordable housing is a choice that our government could make, if they wanted. [/quote]

Here's an idea.  Ward 3 has the highest or at least the second highest number of rent controlled units in DC.  These are often in older, smaller apartment buildings, but they provide more affordable housing today for workforce and lower wage workers, as well as older people on fixed incomes.  Rent controlled housing in Ward 3 provides families with access to decent schools.   However, in its statements, Bowser's Office of Planning refuses to protect, much less to acknowledge, rent controlled housing as an important component of DC'S affordable housing strategy. OP pretends that  this important resource doesn't even exist, most likely to understate existing affordable housing stock in order to push their economic theory that building lots more market-rate housing will trickle down some inclusive zoning units.  Indeed, District policy encourages the conversation of existing affordable, rent controlled units to market rate units and the recently enacted Comprehensive Plan amendments create economic incentives to tear down or redevelop older apartment buildings into upscale housing.  A few IZ units sprinkled in new market rate developments are a minuscule tradeoff for the loss of rent controlled housing.[/quote]

Rent controlled housing only works for the people already there. This is not the unicorn you think it is.[/quote]

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