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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the end of the day, no middle class families are moving into 4-plexes. Like everyone else, they want a SFH, not some lame townhouse with zero parking.

Adding density just brings in more young people, mostly those that used to live in DC but now want a bigger place to support WFH. [/quote]

Yep.

And its fine to debate the merits of increasing the density, but its insulting to suggest families are going to be buying these 750k duplexes or condos.   It will be young yuppies.   Lets at least ne honest about that.[/quote]

Middle-class families aren't going to move into unaffordable fourplexes, they are going to hold out for even more unaffordable detached houses?

But also those fourplexes are going to be loud because of all of the families living in them?[/quote]

No... they are going to get their SFH where they can afford to!  [b]Like always.[/b] [/quote]

It's 2023, not 1975. In 2023, middle-class families live in a lot of housing types that aren't detached houses, because they can't afford detached houses in locations that work for them. Very few people are moving from Arlington to rural Nebraska in order to be able to afford a detached house.[/quote]

Now youre just being obtuse.

No one is saying the alternative to a particular neighborhood in Arlington is... Nebraska. [/quote]

What's the alternative?[/quote]

Ever look at a map of the DC metro area?[/quote]

You tell me. Where will all middle-class families move to a detached house they can afford, elsewhere in the DC Metro area, in preference to living in something that isn't a detached house, in Arlington?[/quote]

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