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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't stand these YIMBY do gooder twerps. They want to raze all SFHs to build dense crap.  They love standing on their moral pedestals when they're too stupid to realize they're destroying the middle class and doing the bidding of the billionaires for free.  Owning a home is pretty much the ONLY wealth vehicle the middle class has left.  But the do gooders want to raze your homes and build giant apartment complexes next to them.  Absolutely no one wants to live next to that junk.  The middle class will flee, and guess what, developers come in taking all the homes and building a whole  bunch of rental crap.

In their infinite wisdom, the YIMBYs and affordable housing idiots are sweeping the last leg of wealth out that is left for the middle class.  They ate going to turn the entire counry into permarenters for life.  And over time the middle class will be far worse off, because no one will be able to own anything, then they'll still jack up your rents on you in the end.  The biggest thing elitists want to control now is land and property ownership.  And all these clownshow housing morons are obtaining it for them by ruining your neighborhoods with their amazingly stupid zoning plans.[/quote]

Not sure if this is bait, but no elected officials seriously want to raze all SFHs in Montgomery County. The AHSI (which I assume you’re referring to) only applies to specific areas within the county near transit corridors. There’s a wealth of literature showing that increasing supply (building more housing) brings down prices. NIMBYs on the council are promoting their exclusionary policies in the name of alleviating economic inequality, and I am not falling for it, nor are many people on the council and perhaps our next executive.[/quote]

Serious question - how does decreasing the supply of SFH bring down the price of SFH? it seems like it would drive up the price of SFH, while maybe bringing apartment/condo prices (and rent on those properties) down. But most people don't want apartment/condos forever. [/quote]

The goal is to generally bring down the price of housing, not SFH specifically. Emphasizing SFH is why we are where we are now with respect to housing affordability. We want a broader range of housing options to fit a broader range of salaries and households.[/quote]

PP here - thank you for answering the question. I have to admit I'm not very well versed on this subject. I always thought/ assumed "missing middle" housing meant houses for the low middle to middle middle class families. So like where I grew up, which was a SFH, but a small one on a small lot. All the families in our neighborhood were working class, or mid-level professionals. Nothing like the mcmansions of today. But it sounds like I'm wrong, and "missing middle" means something else? Cause in my experience I feel like there's plenty of options for singles or couples (apartments/condos), but no where where I can raise a family without being really rich. Every time I see another "mixed use" development going up I get so depressed, because it's always just condos and apartments. But maybe the "American dream" of a house with a little yard and family is just dead? [/quote]

Don’t let these people fool you. Missing middle is just millennials that want to own a place in a desirable area but can’t afford to. They couldn’t care less about families. They certainly don’t want them in SFHs.[/quote]

Not quite. [b]Missing middle is a marketing fad.[/b] Politicians think it’s middle class housing but it’s really just smaller, expensive housing that boomers buy to rent out or use as a pied-à-terre. [/quote]

This.[/quote]

I live in "missing middle" housing, and it's full of middle class families.[/quote]

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