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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The answer to your question is that it's appropriate to build denser options in non-dense areas where people want denser options. If people didn't want denser options there, then there wouldn't be any money in providing denser options there.

Now, you may disagree about the appropriateness. For example, you may believe that it is NOT appropriate to build denser options in non-dense areas where people want denser options, if the current residents of those non-dense areas don't want them. But that's the answer. [/quote]

[b]People buy houses where they are built (Urban planning).[/b] The character change comes gradually and later. If the mayor wants a denser Ward 3 and builds houses there. Of course people will buy them.  If DC invested an ounce of concern and cash in Ward 8 they could have that area looking like Wharf.

No this is about money. [/quote]

That's not how the real estate market works, PP. Speaking of money. It's also not how urban planning works.

People want to live in multi-family housing in Ward 3 and are willing to pay for it. That's where that money you're talking about comes from. Builders have no interest in building housing that they will lose money on because nobody wants to live in it.[/quote]

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