Anonymous
07/01/2021 21:33
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
More pathetic than people who insult others in defense of a website?
Correction, a hyper local advocacy website funded by developers and the real estate industry.
Don’t forget its funding from WMATA, which GGW initially failed to disclose!
Reminds me of the time that Capital Bikeshare was a sponsor and they proudly included it in their list of sponsors on their website. They then removed removed the disclosure of that sponsorship and started posting articles attacking “dockless” bike sharing. Then when people pointed this out, they lied about all of it. Including trying to claim they were never a sponsor at all, despite evidence. Very low ethics over there.
Holy cow, did this really happen? Wow!
Anonymous
07/01/2021 21:31
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
More pathetic than people who insult others in defense of a website?
Nope. Try again. Read some peer reviewed journals on housing. Then get back to me.
Anonymous
07/01/2021 21:30
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
More pathetic than people who insult others in defense of a website?
Correction, a hyper local advocacy website funded by developers and the real estate industry.
Hint: A "Developer" built your home, champ. How dare people make money in a free market economy! This should be the USSR!
Read a history book kid.
Anonymous
07/01/2021 10:28
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
More pathetic than people who insult others in defense of a website?
Correction, a hyper local advocacy website funded by developers and the real estate industry.
Don’t forget its funding from WMATA, which GGW initially failed to disclose!
Reminds me of the time that Capital Bikeshare was a sponsor and they proudly included it in their list of sponsors on their website. They then removed removed the disclosure of that sponsorship and started posting articles attacking “dockless” bike sharing. Then when people pointed this out, they lied about all of it. Including trying to claim they were never a sponsor at all, despite evidence. Very low ethics over there.
Anonymous
07/01/2021 10:11
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
More pathetic than people who insult others in defense of a website?
Correction, a hyper local advocacy website funded by developers and the real estate industry.
Don’t forget its funding from WMATA, which GGW initially failed to disclose!
Anonymous
07/01/2021 06:27
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
More pathetic than people who insult others in defense of a website?
Correction, a hyper local advocacy website funded by developers and the real estate industry.
I’m an individual and I donate to GGW because I care about the city.
NIMBY Boomer homeowners need to be stripped of power before they ruin the city.
Thanks, Bob.
Anonymous
07/01/2021 02:38
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
More pathetic than people who insult others in defense of a website?
Correction, a hyper local advocacy website funded by developers and the real estate industry.
I’m an individual and I donate to GGW because I care about the city.
NIMBY Boomer homeowners need to be stripped of power before they ruin the city.
Anonymous
07/01/2021 01:14
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
More pathetic than people who insult others in defense of a website?
Correction, a hyper local advocacy website funded by developers and the real estate industry.
Anonymous
07/01/2021 01:11
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
More pathetic than people who insult others in defense of a website?
Anonymous
06/30/2021 22:36
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
GGW may find itself like the NRA in having its nonprofit status at risk for violations of various rules applicable to nonprofits.
Nothing they do is outside of the scope of a non-profit dude. lol. The obsession y'all have against them is pathetic.
The wealth and power accumulated by homeowners is 1000x the wealth those evil "developers" have gained. It's such a nonstory. If people took 2 minutes to actually do research instead of "OMG those mean developers are building more homes!"
Sad.
Anonymous
06/30/2021 22:26
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
GGW may find itself like the NRA in having its nonprofit status at risk for violations of various rules applicable to nonprofits.
Anonymous
06/30/2021 22:08
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
The obsession of GGW in this forum is pretty pathetic lol. As if a small nonprofit is the be blamed for all the housing woes in this city. NIMBYs (who don't understand supply and demand) will NIMBY, I guess.
Anonymous
06/30/2021 17:39
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Someone put this very well:
“The DC Policy Center says that from 2018-2019, the only effective population growth in DC was from births.
https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/districts-population-grows-14th-year-row-weaker-rate/
Over the last 10 years, the GGW shills have been promoting and praising more and more smaller apartments, more studios and 1-BDs, even “micro-units”, over multi-bedroom family apartments and other family housing like new build THs. The claim is that there will be a trickle down effect, “benefits should eventually spread across all tiers of comparable housing”.
https://ggwash.org/view/43334/were-building-apartments-to-be-far-smaller-than-we-used-to
Using these theories they have promoted gentrification of neighborhoods, including demolition of existing family housing to produce more and more “luxury” studios and 1-BDs.
https://ggwash.org/view/73267/on-average-gentrification-helps-people-but-that-doesnt-mean-its-not-painful-for-some
In 2020, the population of DC declined while the demand for family housing increased due to the number of babies with predictable results. Rents for “luxury” studios and 1-BDs fell by double digits.
https://dcist.com/story/20/12/07/this-map-shows-where-rents-are-dropping-in-d-c/
In the meantime, prices of housing suitable for families, SFHs, THs and 3+ BD condos, have skyrocketed increasing by double digits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/mapping-dc-regions-2020-housing-market/
OOPSIES!
So now they are screaming about the need for more “Missing Middle” now that young, UMC white people want family housing. Should of thought about that 10 years ago. In fact, people were saying that DC should focus more on family housing 10 years ago, particularly the city’s low income housing activists but they were either ignored or shouted down as NIMBYS. So here we are.
After the streetcar debacle, it is unfathomable to me that anyone would ever listen to these people and yet, a decade of stupid policy resulting in the current chaos was a completely obvious outcome.
In the meantime, RFK is coming down and instead of doing everything possible to turn that site into a beautiful TH and multi-family community that could house thousands of families, the GGW shills are trying to upzone Ward 3 which wouldn’t produce only a trickle of new family housing per year.
Idiots. Or should we question the motives?
Just stop listening to these people.
Huh? How would building fewer multi-family buildings in the past decade result in more affordable single-family homes today? That makes no sense. There weren't huge tracts of SFH destroyed to build multifamily buildings. Gentrification is a different story - that's about people buying existing SFH and driving up prices, not about decreasing the supply of SFH. Small condo coversions popping up SFH are what can turn SFH into 3- or 4-family units, but my guess is that you despise pop-ups as well.
Easy. The number of family housing units (3+ BD) in the city in this time has decreased, placing a premium on the current stock.
by how much?
Anonymous
06/30/2021 17:33
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Someone put this very well:
“The DC Policy Center says that from 2018-2019, the only effective population growth in DC was from births.
https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/districts-population-grows-14th-year-row-weaker-rate/
Over the last 10 years, the GGW shills have been promoting and praising more and more smaller apartments, more studios and 1-BDs, even “micro-units”, over multi-bedroom family apartments and other family housing like new build THs. The claim is that there will be a trickle down effect, “benefits should eventually spread across all tiers of comparable housing”.
https://ggwash.org/view/43334/were-building-apartments-to-be-far-smaller-than-we-used-to
Using these theories they have promoted gentrification of neighborhoods, including demolition of existing family housing to produce more and more “luxury” studios and 1-BDs.
https://ggwash.org/view/73267/on-average-gentrification-helps-people-but-that-doesnt-mean-its-not-painful-for-some
In 2020, the population of DC declined while the demand for family housing increased due to the number of babies with predictable results. Rents for “luxury” studios and 1-BDs fell by double digits.
https://dcist.com/story/20/12/07/this-map-shows-where-rents-are-dropping-in-d-c/
In the meantime, prices of housing suitable for families, SFHs, THs and 3+ BD condos, have skyrocketed increasing by double digits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/mapping-dc-regions-2020-housing-market/
OOPSIES!
So now they are screaming about the need for more “Missing Middle” now that young, UMC white people want family housing. Should of thought about that 10 years ago. In fact, people were saying that DC should focus more on family housing 10 years ago, particularly the city’s low income housing activists but they were either ignored or shouted down as NIMBYS. So here we are.
After the streetcar debacle, it is unfathomable to me that anyone would ever listen to these people and yet, a decade of stupid policy resulting in the current chaos was a completely obvious outcome.
In the meantime, RFK is coming down and instead of doing everything possible to turn that site into a beautiful TH and multi-family community that could house thousands of families, the GGW shills are trying to upzone Ward 3 which wouldn’t produce only a trickle of new family housing per year.
Idiots. Or should we question the motives?
Just stop listening to these people.
Huh? How would building fewer multi-family buildings in the past decade result in more affordable single-family homes today? That makes no sense. There weren't huge tracts of SFH destroyed to build multifamily buildings. Gentrification is a different story - that's about people buying existing SFH and driving up prices, not about decreasing the supply of SFH. Small condo coversions popping up SFH are what can turn SFH into 3- or 4-family units, but my guess is that you despise pop-ups as well.
Easy. The number of family housing units (3+ BD) in the city in this time has decreased, placing a premium on the current stock.
Anonymous
06/30/2021 17:09
Subject: We need homes. A lot of homes. Not just affordable, but also middle-income homes.
Anonymous wrote:Someone put this very well:
“The DC Policy Center says that from 2018-2019, the only effective population growth in DC was from births.
https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/districts-population-grows-14th-year-row-weaker-rate/
Over the last 10 years, the GGW shills have been promoting and praising more and more smaller apartments, more studios and 1-BDs, even “micro-units”, over multi-bedroom family apartments and other family housing like new build THs. The claim is that there will be a trickle down effect, “benefits should eventually spread across all tiers of comparable housing”.
https://ggwash.org/view/43334/were-building-apartments-to-be-far-smaller-than-we-used-to
Using these theories they have promoted gentrification of neighborhoods, including demolition of existing family housing to produce more and more “luxury” studios and 1-BDs.
https://ggwash.org/view/73267/on-average-gentrification-helps-people-but-that-doesnt-mean-its-not-painful-for-some
In 2020, the population of DC declined while the demand for family housing increased due to the number of babies with predictable results. Rents for “luxury” studios and 1-BDs fell by double digits.
https://dcist.com/story/20/12/07/this-map-shows-where-rents-are-dropping-in-d-c/
In the meantime, prices of housing suitable for families, SFHs, THs and 3+ BD condos, have skyrocketed increasing by double digits.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/interactive/2021/mapping-dc-regions-2020-housing-market/
OOPSIES!
So now they are screaming about the need for more “Missing Middle” now that young, UMC white people want family housing. Should of thought about that 10 years ago. In fact, people were saying that DC should focus more on family housing 10 years ago, particularly the city’s low income housing activists but they were either ignored or shouted down as NIMBYS. So here we are.
After the streetcar debacle, it is unfathomable to me that anyone would ever listen to these people and yet, a decade of stupid policy resulting in the current chaos was a completely obvious outcome.
In the meantime, RFK is coming down and instead of doing everything possible to turn that site into a beautiful TH and multi-family community that could house thousands of families, the GGW shills are trying to upzone Ward 3 which wouldn’t produce only a trickle of new family housing per year.
Idiots. Or should we question the motives?
Just stop listening to these people.
Huh? How would building fewer multi-family buildings in the past decade result in more affordable single-family homes today? That makes no sense. There weren't huge tracts of SFH destroyed to build multifamily buildings. Gentrification is a different story - that's about people buying existing SFH and driving up prices, not about decreasing the supply of SFH. Small condo coversions popping up SFH are what can turn SFH into 3- or 4-family units, but my guess is that you despise pop-ups as well.