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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hate hate hate these Upzoning ideas. These developers are brilliant for turning these folks into their third party validators.[/quote]

Upzoning and reducing land use restrictions is sound policy validated by years of high-quality research, no matter how many times you post the same brainless rants and raves.[/quote]
Actually it’s not and the best research on the subject doesn’t support this conclusion. [/quote]

It most certainly does, and has been posted numerous times in several similar threads. It's very interesting how people who take your position scuttle away whenever it's posted, only to pop back up in another thread spouting the same nonsense like it never happened.[/quote]

Just like the urbanists scuttle away when it’s pointed out that developers have approvals for tens of thousands units that they’re just sitting on. Build those, housing crisis solved.

The research cited is small N, and urbanists overextend the arguments. I say this as someone who believes upzoning is necessary but not sufficient. [/quote]

You're truly out to lunch if you think ~11,000 yet-to-be-delivered units in the Montgomery County pipeline solves the housing crisis. We live in a metro area of over 6 million people.

The research is sound. It'd be great if you could engage with it instead of saying something that sounds intelligent, like that it "is small N" but just reveals that you haven't actually read any of it.[/quote]

Montgomery County's pipeline has 30,000 residential units in it. More than two thirds of those units were approved since 2015. You're truly out to lunch if you don't know that. Some of those units will never be built because planning allowed developers to downsize as they closed in on delivery, and some of those units became short-term rentals, again with planning's blessing. That's a lot of saying YIMBY, so saying YIMBY clearing isn't sufficient to solve the housing crisis, even though it is necessary. To solve the housing crisis, it needs to get a lot more uncomfortable for the developers sitting on these approvals. Plan validity duration should be reduced and fees for extensions should go up based on the severity of the housing crisis.

I have read the research. You overextrapolate from it. Get familiar with what's going on in this area and then comment again. It's hard to fix a market when you don't understand what's actually happening in that market.

One thing that never works is supply side economics, unless your goal is increasing the wealth gap, and then it's a great policy. There's a lot of research on that.[/quote]

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