Affordable housing my $&$

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/10/new-affordable-housing-development-in-north-bethesda-stands-on-site-of-former-metro-parking-lot/


How can they smile and say how affordable this place is? For who? I can’t pay $8k/mo rent for a 3 bedroom apartment for my family. As a teacher I wouldn’t even be able to afford their $4k 2 bedroom apartments. Am I supposed to cram my whole family into the few one bedroom or studio apartments?

Council needs to get real and the media needs to be transparent in their reporting!

https://www.ravelandroyale.com/en/apartments/royaleresidences

If it works like other apartment buildings with affordable units, then the website you linked to is only listing the unrestricted (market-rate) units. It's not listing the income-restricted (affordable) units.

"Ravel and Royale" is a dumb name, in my opinion - apparently the Ravel is the composer Ravel, not the ravel in unravel - but not any dumber than Amalyn, for example, or a gazillion other dumb development names.

It's next to Strathmore, PP. Come on. MD is one of the most highly educated states in the nation.

If the people are so highly educated, why do they have to live in affordable housing?

I recommend a class that covers data and statistics, such as AP Statistics or IB Mathematics: Applications and Interpretations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2024/10/new-affordable-housing-development-in-north-bethesda-stands-on-site-of-former-metro-parking-lot/


How can they smile and say how affordable this place is? For who? I can’t pay $8k/mo rent for a 3 bedroom apartment for my family. As a teacher I wouldn’t even be able to afford their $4k 2 bedroom apartments. Am I supposed to cram my whole family into the few one bedroom or studio apartments?

Council needs to get real and the media needs to be transparent in their reporting!

https://www.ravelandroyale.com/en/apartments/royaleresidences

If it works like other apartment buildings with affordable units, then the website you linked to is only listing the unrestricted (market-rate) units. It's not listing the income-restricted (affordable) units.

"Ravel and Royale" is a dumb name, in my opinion - apparently the Ravel is the composer Ravel, not the ravel in unravel - but not any dumber than Amalyn, for example, or a gazillion other dumb development names.

It's next to Strathmore, PP. Come on. MD is one of the most highly educated states in the nation.

If the people are so highly educated, why do they have to live in affordable housing?

I recommend a class that covers data and statistics, such as AP Statistics or IB Mathematics: Applications and Interpretations.

Is a good alternative knowledge of mathematical statistics and discrete mathematics?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How big is your family? I lived in a studio with 2 people and in 1-bedroom with 3. Many do the same to be in our neighborhood.
Had we invested the money we saved over buying, we would have had half a million to put down after 11-13 years living in apartment.

These 3 bedrooms, and most of the 2 bedrooms, are also bigger than my house. A lot of them are in the range of 1600-2000 sq ft.

[Anonymous]

Affordable housing is the term for every development now. It's how developers get people to support the project. It doesn't actually denote anything specific about what gets built.

It's pretty genius because no one wants to be against affordable housing. And then by the time the project gets built, everyone forgets what was promised, and it's too late anyways.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Affordable housing is the term for every development now. It's how developers get people to support the project. It doesn't actually denote anything specific about what gets built.

It's pretty genius because no one wants to be against affordable housing. And then by the time the project gets built, everyone forgets what was promised, and it's too late anyways.

And one more thing: this is why we always need more affordable housing. Every development is supposed to be affordable, but it's not, so then we're told the next development will bring affordable housing, but it doesn't. And this cycle continues endlessly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Affordable housing is the term for every development now. It's how developers get people to support the project. It doesn't actually denote anything specific about what gets built.

It's pretty genius because no one wants to be against affordable housing. And then by the time the project gets built, everyone forgets what was promised, and it's too late anyways.

No, it's not.

Although it's true that every large-enough development has affordable housing, because that's the county requirement: for any new development in Montgomery County with 20 or more units, 12.5-15% of those units must be Moderately Priced Dwelling Units (MPDUs).

Here's the 2023 annual report on MPDUs: https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DHCA/Resources/Files/housing/affordable/publications/mpdu/annual_report_mpdu-2023.pdf

(Also, plenty of people are against affordable housing, including publicly. Here's how they do it: "I support affordable housing, but...")