Up to 140% AMI, though, plus $700 condo fees

This specific study was of a building filled with $1M condos next to a luxury mall, overlooking Waikiki Beach.
If even that housing is good, then all housing is good

Granted, "subsidized" 2BRs were sold in the $500-600K range and have ~$750 monthly condo fees.
$500 PSF probably doesn't break even for high-rise in high-cost Hawaii, but it also isn't exactly "deeply affordable"

"It’s likely that the type of missing middle construction that will be most attractive to Arlington home builders and homebuyers are units similar to townhouses" @ebwhamilton.bsky.social in May 2023 ggwash.org/view/89490/h...

but at least in suburban DC many hotels are transit accessible; that is definitely not the case elsewhere. Try finding hotels accessible by NJT or Metra...

Timing has been impacted by the short Congressional calendar.
Overall DC-area room rates only just now met 2019 levels, as oddly demonstrated by Arlington Co's nonexistent HQ2 subsidy (which is paid out of hotel tax growth)
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

& since the case has added potentially dozens of defendants, it has become way more complicated and labor-intensive = costly to pursue. We'll know in a few weeks if they can find another lawyer naive enough to take on the county.

Apparently the NIMBY side ran out of money to pay their lawyer (counsel withdrew 11/14) -- way to end with a whimper rather than a bang. Plus, the judge currently assigned to the case just ruled in favor of Alexandria.

It's got to be awful inside.

I'm just now seeing this 2024 report, but as @ebwhamilton.bsky.social predicted, most popular project type was 3-unit townhouses -- e.g., the largest bldg possible under IRC + conventional SF mortgage financing
www.arlingtonwins.org/updates-blog...

+ and what's REALLY REALLY not going to work is codifying this approach DC-wide
bsky.app/profile/west...

"while most of DC's growth is limited to large apartment buildings now, that can't continue to be the case. The existing residential neighborhoods must also allow room for growth and incremental development." - @alexblock.bsky.social
attn @opindc.bsky.social

What isn't working is to zone only for new housing in downtown high-rise buildings, where units cost ~$1000 PSF, and then requiring said high-rises to have 1,000+ sq ft units. That's a recipe for requiring $1M units -- not at all helpful for middle-class families.
ggwash.org/view/37492/d...

This works because low-rises (townhouses, duplexes, multifamily up to 3 stories) can already be built as point access blocks. That means no interior corridors and lower costs per sq ft. Per-sq-ft costs matters all the more when units have to be 1,000+ sq ft!
ggwash.org/view/93257/h...

Yep, even the OG Leaf has absurd acceleration. The tradeoff is speed vs. range

ESDC is still technically the UDC, which per sec 16.3 can bypass municipal zoning (as made famous in "Show Me a Hero")
www.nysenate.gov/legislation/...

Numerically, yes.