MoCo getting poorer: 1 out of 2 new households earns under $50k

[Anonymous]

I mean I'm not sure what they were expecting when they go out of their way to import poverty into the county:

https://montgomeryplanning.org/planning/housing/housing-needs-assessment/

1 out of every 2 new households is low-income (earning under $50,000 a year), which means the county is capturing an outsized share of low-income households.

Of course the progressive response will be entirely predictable: upend your way of life so that they can build housing for poorer people while simultaneously raising your taxes to pay for all of their social programs they will inevitably need. Wait until school quality keeps declining. R.I.P. home values in MoCo. The progressives there continually make the county poorer and poorer. They will come for any semblance of wealth to try to redistribute it to all of the impoverished people they're importing.

[Anonymous]

News at 7! This county has been getting poorer since the late 90s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean I'm not sure what they were expecting when they go out of their way to import poverty into the county:

https://montgomeryplanning.org/planning/housing/housing-needs-assessment/

1 out of every 2 new households is low-income (earning under $50,000 a year), which means the county is capturing an outsized share of low-income households.

Of course the progressive response will be entirely predictable: upend your way of life so that they can build housing for poorer people while simultaneously raising your taxes to pay for all of their social programs they will inevitably need. Wait until school quality keeps declining. R.I.P. home values in MoCo. The progressives there continually make the county poorer and poorer. They will come for any semblance of wealth to try to redistribute it to all of the impoverished people they're importing.

Oh they're very willing to pay the higher taxes to keep a steady stream of housekeepers, landscapers, and nannies. But only as long as their help live in Silver Spring and Wheaton.

[Anonymous]

When they were priced out of DC, did you think they would only go to PG County?

[Anonymous]

What prompted you to cite a study that is 4 years old based on data that is at least six?

[Anonymous]

Sure when you let in thousands of uneducated people of course it’s getting poorer. Everywhere needs dishwashers and maids and cooks but not every state wants them to live there. Maryland has welcomed them and look at your schools. They are a disaster for the most part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure when you let in thousands of uneducated people of course it’s getting poorer. Everywhere needs dishwashers and maids and cooks but not every state wants them to live there. Maryland has welcomed them and look at your schools. They are a disaster for the most part.

Can you expand on this please? What policies do you think are bad, and what would you have preferred?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What prompted you to cite a study that is 4 years old based on data that is at least six?

MAGA insipidity. "Vote R because....other people exist and that's gross!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What prompted you to cite a study that is 4 years old based on data that is at least six?

Not only that, home prices have gone up in the past six years; they are building new multi unit homes all over the place, many with a starting price of $850K+.

I'm thinking .. people who make < $50K are not the ones buying all those new builds.

Schools are overcrowded, and not just the poor areas. Most of the schools on the western side are over capacity, too.

MoCo is expensive. The poor are being pushed out. I do agree that MD needs to stop welcoming so many illegal immigrants. We have enough people living here who can't afford it. Importing more poor people also pushes out the already poor due to demand for services and lower priced housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sure when you let in thousands of uneducated people of course it’s getting poorer. Everywhere needs dishwashers and maids and cooks but not every state wants them to live there. Maryland has welcomed them and look at your schools. They are a disaster for the most part.

So, where should they live? "Somewhere else" and "Over there" are not places people can live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure when you let in thousands of uneducated people of course it’s getting poorer. Everywhere needs dishwashers and maids and cooks but not every state wants them to live there. Maryland has welcomed them and look at your schools. They are a disaster for the most part.

Can you expand on this please? What policies do you think are bad, and what would you have preferred?

Unfettered acceptance in MD and MoCo of illegal immigration.

Of course they're impoverished when they come to them country illegally. Now they want taxpayers in the county to shoulder the burden and spread their hard earned wealth to foreign nationals in the country illegally.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What prompted you to cite a study that is 4 years old based on data that is at least six?

MAGA insipidity. "Vote R because....other people exist and that's gross!"

Progressive stupidity: illegal immigration....MoR PuHleAzE!!!

[Anonymous]

Yup. It’s why we left MoCo for greener pastures. A government that actually promotes and encourages illegal immigration is actual insanity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sure when you let in thousands of uneducated people of course it’s getting poorer. Everywhere needs dishwashers and maids and cooks but not every state wants them to live there. Maryland has welcomed them and look at your schools. They are a disaster for the most part.

Can you expand on this please? What policies do you think are bad, and what would you have preferred?

Unfettered acceptance in MD and MoCo of illegal immigration.

Of course they're impoverished when they come to them country illegally. Now they want taxpayers in the county to shoulder the burden and spread their hard earned wealth to foreign nationals in the country illegally.

What does "unfettered acceptance" mean? What policies does MoCo have and what policies do you think it should have?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What prompted you to cite a study that is 4 years old based on data that is at least six?

Not only that, home prices have gone up in the past six years; they are building new multi unit homes all over the place, many with a starting price of $850K+.

I'm thinking .. people who make < $50K are not the ones buying all those new builds.

Schools are overcrowded, and not just the poor areas. Most of the schools on the western side are over capacity, too.

MoCo is expensive. The poor are being pushed out. I do agree that MD needs to stop welcoming so many illegal immigrants. We have enough people living here who can't afford it. Importing more poor people also pushes out the already poor due to demand for services and lower priced housing.

Anyone who has lived in this county for at least a decade know this is false.

Gaithersburg used to be middle class with a small area around Montgomery Village that was low income. Now Gaithersburg is almost all low income except for Kentlands. And not only is is low income, about half the murders in the county occur there.

Clarksburg was initially criticized for promoting classic white flight suburban sprawl. Clarksburg is now basically a middle to lower middle class Black community.

Downtown Silver Spring has become absolutely ghetto. There was a time before Veterans Plaza that site was just an open turn field where young white families would have picnics and their kids would play lacrosse on a Friday evening. It’s hard to believe that was only 2011, it was all so Mayberry. There is no way I would ever hang out in Vetrans Plaza today with young kids on a Friday night.

They you’re lucky enough to live in Chevy Chase or Bethesda, your neighborhood has been static and actually a little poorer. Downtown Bethesda used to have two fur shops. Now it has none.

The only neighborhood that has actually improved and gotten richer over this period seems to be the Takoma Park Historic District. Go figure.