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Increasing density is anti-family. People with kids don't want to live in friggin' condos. Condos are for people who don't have children. [/quote]

No, [i]you[/i] don't want to live in a condo with kids. That doesn't mean no one does. Condos in neighborhoods with good public schools could be for people with children who don't have the money to buy a house there.[/quote]

Oh, I see. So no single people in their 20s want to live in Tenleytown? But parents are totally cool with condos? Right. Get back to us when you have kids.  [/quote]

As the PP says: some parents are fine with living in condos. Some parents are even fine living in rental apartments! Not everyone has the same preferences as you.

-a parent who knows plenty of people who live in condos/apartments with kids[/quote]

Similarly, some people are totally fine with having three-hour commutes to work. They like all that time on the road because it gives them a chance to catch up on their podcasts. But those people -- like these people with children who supposedly like living in condos -- are the weird outliers.

I have children and I have never *ever* met any parent who didnt wish they had more space. [/quote]

Thy might want more space, but maybe they also want to be a 20-minute Metro ride from work instead of a 60-minute drive, and maybe they can’t afford to pay $1 million for a house close in. So they decide they’d rather have a condo than a house farther away. Real estate is always about making trade offs like that unless you have unlimited money. But right now, in large sections of upper NW, there’s no option for anything except a single-family house for people to consider. Wouldn’t it be better if there was also some cheaper, smaller housing stock?[/quote]

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