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[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]

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]

These are just developer talking points to persuade DC to relax zoning for much more market-rate, dense development.  Most people can see through this cynical spin.  For example, the chair of Cleveland Park Smart Growth owns a business that was the national pollster for the Trump campaign while Trump was promising the save neighborhoods from affordable housing.  And then he and other Smart Growth lobbyists pivot for other clients to push Smart Growth as encouraging affordable housing, racial diversity and environmental benefits?  Such horse hooey![/quote]

You keep bringing up this Trump dude. Hint champ, nobody cares. It's polling. Nobody. Cares.

Thousands of new jobs are being created in DC. Market-rate development is needed. Sorry to burst your bubble. Take Econ 101.[/quote]

So true what they say, that DC Smart Growth is Trumpy operatives making lobbying pitches in the language of woke progressivism, to push DC zoning deregulatory and obtain windfall profit opportunities for their private developer clients.  Sleazy.[/quote]

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