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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]According to today's article in the Washington Post, "The D.C. region needs to build 87 new homes per day. It’s not close," we are not doing nearly enough to build low income, affordable and workforce housing. Just to meet our housing target we'd need to build "1,600 Watergate apartment complexes this decade" according to the article. Funny how people are fighting over preserving single family homes, historic districts, etc., in light of the current housing crisis. [/quote]

So build giant Watergate-sized apartment complexes in urban areas instead of wasting your time and effort trying to drag down SFH neighborhoods building random fourplexes.  No one is saying that you can’t build in places that make sense.  In fact, you can build to your heart’s content and likely get support from the population at large if you’d drop the upzoning nonsense.[/quote]

Would you move to a Watergate like complex in an urban area? Would any current home owner?

What urban area would welcome such a development? What about more than one of them?

This solution just makes housing somebody else's problem. [/quote]

So, the issue is not sufficient housing but housing in prime locations. That, to me is entitlement and not actual need.[/quote]

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