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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don’t understand people who say there is no affordable housing in a city that is one top ten markets in the richest country in the world. Go get a job that pays more or commute like the rest of the 7 billion people on the planet. What makes you so special? Go big or go home. That’s life in the city.[/quote]

For the record, people who used this post to castigate liberals. I'm a liberal. Very, very liberal. What I  angers me, is the "smart growth" folks is their insistence that they get affordable housing in Ward 3. There are a lot of less expensive places to live in this city. But you want to live with the other rich white people. Ward 8. PG County, parts of MoCo, have less expensive housing. Buy a condo. DO you know how many families of four are living in a 650 square foot apartments in NYC with hour long commutes on a loud smelly trains? you all need to grow up.   [/quote]

It isn't that the smart growth advocates want the housing for themselves. Most of them live in million + homes. They want affordable housing for their communities because they believe in 1) more density supporting the local retail 2) economic and racial diversity and 3) environmental benefits of having more people live in a compact urban center rather than plowing up more fields for single family homes.

Are you opposed to those three things?[/quote]

Nobody

Of course rich people living in $1M homes don't want more SFHs. They don't care what everyone else is left with, especially the poors.[/quote]

They want more diverse people in their neighborhood, which based on your response, or lack thereof, you are opposed to. And they are fine with people living in SFH, but it is unsustainable to have all of the acres of land just be SFH. So you are basically opposed to the three elements I posted. Fair enough.[/quote]

I oppose all 3 elements.  Not interested in more density.  Already support local retail, but local retail is not returning as it was decades ago.   Not interested in a compact urban center.  What makes DC great is the SFH neighborhoods.

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Nobody is saying knock down condos to build SFHOMES. However, some people are saying knock down SFH to build condos.[/quote]

Who is saying that? People are simply arguing for property owners to have the option to build more homes. Someone would be knocking down their own home—by choice—to build condos. No one is forcing anyone to increase density. [/quote]

I would 100% knock down my rowhouse in NoMa, build a condo up to height max, then move to a huge house in Great Falls.[/quote]

Absolutely. You won't even have to. You can sell your SFH to a.developer who will do that for you, and move to a huge house in great falls. Your former  neighbors will wake up to a new apartment busing next door.[/quote]

DC has fewer residents than it did in 1950.  There is no housing crisis.  There simply is a lack of imagination here.
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That is because the average household was 3x bigger than it is today.[/quote]

So many units have been built since then, as well as townhomes divided into sub units - there should be MORE than enough housing for small households.[/quote]

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