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GGW thinks large, family homes in the city are the ultimate enemy. Please keep up.[/quote]

No, GGW thinks (to the extent that a blog with lots of contributors can have one opinion) that ZONING that REQUIRES LARGE ONE-HOUSEHOLD DWELLING UNITS AND DOES NOT ALLOW ANYTHING ELSE is the ultimate enemy.

With good reason.[/quote]

Yes, and FWIW, I am the PP who talked about wanting to move into a larger home, and I'm not talking about a 3000 sq ft, five bedroom house with a yard and a garage. I'm talking about, like, a 3 bedroom condo or a row home with a small patio. One of the problems with a lot of the luxury housing is not that it's too small, it's that it is designed for childless people. Many of the luxury condo units in this city would be more usable if they were the same size but had an additional bedroom instead of more "entertainment space". So much of the new housing that gets built in DC is designed for single or DINK professionals who want lots of building amenities (doormen, pools, gyms) and don't even use their homes that much.

Some of these buildings could charge the same thing they do now, but eliminate some of the building amenities that push the condo fees up, and design apartments for small families, and it would actually help a lot. We need more housing, but we also need more of specific kinds of housing. I would put "luxury condo units for well-paid young professionals" at the bottom of the list simply because it is a market that is already being very well served in this area.[/quote]

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