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The unfortunate fact of life, which is at the center of this debate and everyone knows but no one says, is that poverty is associated with a number of behaviors that people will pay a premium to avoid. (the nouveau riche do too, but that’s another story)

So on the one hand, you have people that have already paid that premium trying to preserve their “investment” and on the other hand you have people that cannot afford to pay the premium who think it’s unfair.

That’s it, that’s the whole story. [/quote]

It's clearly not the whole story, given opponents' insistence that the build-more-housing people are all younger white college graduates who are just trying to get something they don't deserve. Or is that the kind of "poverty associated with a number of behaviors" you were talking about?[/quote]

DP. It’s not about “deserve.” That has nothing to do with it. I haven’t seen any poster use that kind of language. [/quote]

Fine, then "can't afford," does that make it better? It doesn't change the point.

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It does. I don’t think Bezos “deserves” billions more dollars than me. But he nevertheless has made billions more dollars than me and thus has way more purchasing power. That’s just the way it goes. I don’t have the money to buy Bezos’ DC house or his neighbors’ for that matter. So I bought somewhere I could afford and try to contribute to my neighborhood and community and make them the best they can be. That’s what the upzoning advocates need to do too. If they do think they “deserve” to live in certain neighborhoods, they need to get over that silly notion ASAP. [/quote]

Nobody is talking about buying Jeff Bezos's house. Nobody is talking about making you sell your specific house in Ward 3 (assuming you own a house in Ward 3) for less. The point is adding housing in Ward 3 so that more people can live in Ward 3. Your argument boils down: the only people who should get to live in Ward 3 are people who have a lot of money.

And then to [u]also[/u] say that people who want to add housing in Ward 3 simply don't want to live in areas with poor people? Major cognitive dissonance.[/quote]

Why do people who can’t afford to live in Ward 3 need to live there so badly that they are fighting to change the laws that those of us who live there relied upon when we bought? I just don’t think areas outside of Ward 3 are so awful that they need to be avoided at all costs. [/quote]

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