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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you think all of the townhomes, pseudo townhomes, and condos are? That’s middle housing and DMV is an outlier that it is actually building it.

What you socialists forget though is the market. Many don’t want to live with shared walls and overcrowded streets, far from jobs. At least not at the minimum price point that these things can be built for. That’s why there is a lack of housing at an entry level.

That and starter homes are a terrible investment and for condos basically entrapment.

In other areas, when home prices exceed what the majority of the market can pay, developers are building smaller to meet the price point.

Again it’s the market. Not just zoning, which is relatively permissive when it comes to density around here.

Never mind you or anyone else can buy in Anacostia right now. Super affordable. The problem is everything else, like safety and schools. Not zoning.[/quote]

The simple answer is to take 10-20 acres and building 200 plus townhouses.  Create a nice townhouse community.  Given the number (200), there are unlikely to be super end.  Create an incentive for a builder to make them middle income.  There are plenty of places along in DC and along Rockville Pike where you can these communities.[/quote]

If you drive up 270, you’ll see tons of places like this.  Farmers sell off their land to developers.  That is really the property exchange that makes this possible.  Simply refining gets you a weird hodgepodge when some homeowners sell to developers and some don’t.  If city planners want denser housing they should pay people out and raze a neighborhood to build what they are looking for.[/quote]

These are the same thing. Farmer sells land to developer, developer puts in homes. Property owners in city sell to developer, developer puts in homes. In both cases existing residents whine about change. [/quote]

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