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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I lean Republican or right on most issues but would love to see missing middle housing in Virginia.

Even though the region has natural beauty living in Virginia felt like living in a massive office park with senseless sprawl, below average transit/transportation, relatively low amounts of public greenspace.

Very underwhelming area considered Arlington is 1 mile outside of the capital of the most powerful nation on Earth.[/quote]

+1. I wish we could cut through partisan noise and have a coalition of people who see that dense housing and urban development are a good thing. There are some philosophical differences about the role of government (central planning of development vs more organic) but you and me both see that the NIMBY mindset is not working. [/quote]

Why do people assume that increasingly density will lead to lower housing prices? DC has been getting more dense for decades. No one tears down a condo building to build a single family home. It would seem that, as supply goes up, so does demand, which means prices just keep going up. [/quote]

Increasing supply won’t lower housing prices.

But increasing supply of housing options that are less expensive than $$$$ SFHs increases the supply of less expensive options. Duh. 
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I think you're missing the point. Increase them all you want. It doesnt mean they're going to remain less expensive. It could make them much more expensive.

Think of it this way: The more people who live in a given area, the more businesses will want to be there because they want a big pool of potential customers. The more businesses move into an area, the more people will want to live there. Which leads to more businesses wanting to move there. Which leads to more people wanting to live there. Which leads to more businesses, etc etc etc.

In that scenario, a one bedroom condo will cost a fortune (see: New York City) [/quote]

Lol NYC is not a good example of housing production obviously.

Look to Tokyo - they create TONS of housing and hence it is affordable: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/11/opinion/editorials/tokyo-housing.html[/quote]

Y'all are obsessed with supply and completely ignore demand. You need both to arrive at a price. There's five million people in the DMV. Don't you think there's literally millions of people who would like to live in Arlington and have a nice short commute and live in a nice community with great schools? If you don't built enough supply to accommodate the demand (and you can't), then prices will only go up. Affordable housing in Arlington will never, ever happen, no matter what the government does. [/quote]

I literally just posted on how Tokyo did that. In the US it is also well known that cities like Houston do a much better job. [/quote]

It is well known that Houston friggin blows, and that referring to how foreign cities supposedly did something or other sounds a lot like talking about your super hot girlfriend in Canada that no one has ever met. [/quote]

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