When ANC 3C passed a resolution this year in support of more density along Connecticut Avenue in Cleveland Park, it was a significant moment. The neighborhood is a textbook example of a wealthy area that has preserved its exclusivity through low-density zoning, which largely makes illegal anything but single-family homes especially on residential streets.
The city’s population has grown over the last two decades, and is likely to continue to do so. Even if COVID stunts the inmigration growth rates cities saw pre-pandemic, the District’s population is increasing primarily because its existing residents are having kids.
But during these decades of growth, neighborhoods in Wards 2 and 3, like Cleveland Park, have added nearly no new homes at all, let alone subsidized or income-restricted affordable housing.
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