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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this will be viewed as black heresy by the $300,000-a-year-but-totally-middle-class citizens of DCUM, but I would personally prefer the city arrange as many backroom crony deals as they need to to build shelters that get children out of the hell holes they've living in right now instead of more developments of luxury condo buildings for 20-something Hill staffers and lobbyists. I would vote for whatever candidate forces those developers to allocate 25% of those new buildings towards actual affordable housing.[/quote]

The reality is that DC doesn't enforce very well its existing laws on "affordable" housing minimums in new projects.  In fact, I've seen zoning cases where the developer dangles having additional affordable housing than what the statute requires in exchange for being allowed more height and density in what's called a planned unit development or PUD.  Yet by the end of the case, not only has the applicant successfully gotten the same number of housing units to count for both statute and PUD purposes, but its lawyers have further reduced the affordable minimum through various technical arguments.  It's a complete racket, and most DC politicians and certainly developers know it.[/quote]

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