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Remember where GGW gets in funding:  from developers and a couple of zoning law firms.  Special interest money.  Many who work for GGW are paid staff.  Others work for partner organizations like the Coalition for Smart Growth.  Still others blog for free from their mothers’ basements, having drunk the Kool-Aid that massive upzoning of Chevy Chase DC or Palisades will somehow deliver them their dream of an affordable sleek new flat on U Street.[/quote]

Nailed it.

The people holding back more housing usually aren't residents because there's not much neighbors or even the government can actually do to restrain by-right development. The big developers are controlling supply so that they can keep rents high.  What developers are fighting for are lower fees, lower taxes, lower affordable housing requirements, and higher subsidies.  [b]They're wrapping all of this in a social justice message and will accuse you of being against poor people if you don't want to subsidize the hedge funds that are bankrolling new construction. But the developers have no interest in providing housing for poor people[/b].[/quote]

Exactly.  And then Big Development engages hired guns like Trump’s pollster to message test and spin their aggressive agenda as somehow addressing equity, inclusion, affordability, and even climate change.  Any cynical slogan or tactic is fair game if it will sell the dog food they’re serving.[/quote]

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