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So enlighten us - how are you going to get a couple of thousand additional kids out of a low density neighborhood with no new housing being built?
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DC has been adding roughly a thousand new residents a month for the past 20 years. The number of units of housing hasn't grown nearly that fast. What has happened is that the number of people per household has grown. When childless households are replaced with households with children that happens.

And while there aren't major developments happening in that area, there is an enormous amount of residential construction going on. There are several dumpsters on every block. [/quote]

DC has been adding hundreds of residents a month for about 15 years.   But they have been moving into new housing units and virtually no new housing units are being built in Foxhall or the Palisades - the fact that you are seeing homes being renovated does not mean new homes are being built - it is rare that there are lots in DC with room for additional homes to be built on them and most new homes are scrapes.

And the number of people per household has not been going up in DC.

Now it is true that families from other neighborhoods with less desirable schools have been cashing out their equity and moving to Ward 3 instead of the suburbs but I find it hard to believe that will had a couple of thousand students to a low density neighborhood.

I'm not going to spend the time looking up the census data but ANC districts are based on Census Data and the two ANC SMD's that cover Foxhall are quite large and total 4,000 total residents - it is hard to fathom a 50% increase in that population from just children.[/quote]

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