Where is the analysis of supply and demand?
Both plans seem to deal in excessive detail with manipulating the “supply” side of the housing equation, but completely ignore the “demand side”. However there seems to be little or no indication in the CHSTFR, or in the Comprehensive Plan for that matter, as to just who wants to leave the District, and who is trying to get in. It is somewhat surprising (once one thinks of it) that there seem to be no readily available polls of buyers or sellers. Thousands of householders come and go every year, and NARPAC has found nothing but occasional anecdotal information from loquacious real estate agents about the motivations of either the leavers or the arrivers. A recent Post article (12/15/05) provides an inkling from Census Data (though NARPAC has been unable to confirm it or embellish on it!) indicating the population change between 1995 and 2000. The chart below is drawn from that Post data and reconfigures it to more easily show the trends. Bars to the right show in-migration and to the l
