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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I wouldn’t because I don’t like urban living. But if I wanted to live in an urban area, sure. What I would do is move out of my SFH neighborhood if SFHs were being replaced with apartments of any kind. We chose a suburban SFH neighborhood to get away from density. [/quote]

…and that’s what will happen, and once people see that writing on the wall it will be a race to escape.  It will be the new white flight, but this time it will just be wealth flight because MOCO has plenty POC who worked very hard to get where they are and bought into nice neighborhoods. Of course, the YImBYs don’t care because averaging incomes and property values down are features to them, not bugs.[/quote]

I agree that there will be significant wealth flight from SFH areas that are densified. You already see lots of wealthy people moving to rural exurbs to flee urban crime. Many of these people no longer feel safe in their suburban communities and they are leaving before things get worse. [/quote]

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