[Smirnoff]

Oh, so construction companies are running out of places in DC? And they need the location right next to the White House?

Please.

There is space right across Anacostia river in the South East. Metro goes there pretty fast.

Build the buildings there, just make sure to hire more police to make it safer for workers.

[natrius]

Personifying the companies that create buildings is a cute rhetorical trick, but people are the ones with the desire to live and work in those places. The height limit prevents them from doing so.

[sally87]

God forbid we create more housing so more people can affordably live in DC. Imagine the sight lines. Oh, the horror.

[eli]

Sure, and that's sort of what happened around Navy Yard. But c'mon, it's not that simple and you know it.

[Smirnoff]

I understand that it's not easy. One way to solve South East crime and penury problems is to move these people away. Building corporate offices there could make it happen.

Now I know that the approach of moving Anacostia people away has this problem: ultimately these people will have to go somewhere and the vicious circle will start again but at least we don't know that all these people will go to the same location, so these problems can be spread and be solved by different communities.