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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Because the most affordable cities I can think of are Vienna and Berlin. So affordable in fact, that neither cities nor countries are well below population replacement (taxes and quasi taxes and policies that they’re not forming families).

I’ll ask you and everyone else again, East of the Anacostia is very affordable. You can buy right now. So why don’t you and everyone else live there? I want to hear why.[/quote]
They never answer directly, only with whataboutism. It's not just EOTR, there's College Park, Hyattsville, Riverdale, etc. all great communities and still very affordable.[/quote]

This is pretty rich considering that offering up EOTR as a counterargument to increasing density throughout the city is literally whataboutism.[/quote]
How about this argument.

Two years ago the city of Minneapolis ended single family zoning city-wide.

Real estate prices in Minneapolis right now are growing 3 times as fast YoY than DC. 15.5% compared to 5.2%. 
https://www.redfin.com/city/10943/MN/Minneapolis/housing-market
https://www.redfin.com/city/12839/DC/Washington-DC/housing-market

Please explain this. [/quote]

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