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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, it’s what will cause the equity in your house to rise. Are you supposed to be the last gentrifier allowed in?[/quote]

+1 to the second sentence. There’s something so disingenuous about well off (most likely) white people objecting to further development in their previously poor neighborhood. [/quote]

Is this some kind of weird Orwellian joke? This stuff is *only* allowed to happen in black neighborhoods. If a developer went to DuPont Circle or Georgetown or Alexandria or Friendship Heights and proposed tearing down a single-family home and covering every square inch of the yard with condos, people would be in the streets with pitchforks. Of course, that never actually happens, because people in those neighborhoods have already engineered their zoning laws to ensure that developers can never do any such thing. So the developers come to poor black neighborhoods where zoning laws basically don't exist, and no one will complain. [/quote]

Give me a break. Creating more multifamily housing is GOOD, not bad.  It's extremely well established that restrictive zoning negatively impacts housing supply.  Do you think it HELPS lower-income homeowners in these neighborhoods to have a historic designation slapped on that makes it harder to do repairs?  [/quote]

If you replace single-family homes with condos, people with children will leave. No one with kids wants to live in a condo. They'll move to the suburbs, which will add to the sprawl and make traffic worse. And then DC will become one of those near-child-free cities like San Francisco and NYC. This presumption that parents will be happy to move into a condo with their kids seems like a strange presumption that people without children always make. [/quote]

Not everyone with kids wants a single family home. We live happily in a condo building with other families with children - three of the four condos have kids. [/quote]

An exception to every rule. Let me guess: You're doing it because you want your kids to go to Murch/Deal/Wilson? I cannot imagine living with my children in a condo. They have such boundless energy they'd be bouncing off the walls. It would be like getting a border collie or some other high-energy dog and forcing it to live in a closet. [/quote]

Nope, sorry. That’s not why. And our kids play outside to expend their boundless energy. If we lived in a house I don’t think I’d want them expending their energy inside either. And not all condos are tiny shoeboxes. There are lots of different ways to live life for a lot of different reasons. Look beyond your blinders, there’s a lot out there. [/quote]

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