MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is linked inside the article you linked. I basically agree with him. It’s better to have higher income people live in MoCo than low income. If they have nowhere to live they will rent elsewhere in the area.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/elrich-opposes-affordable-housing-targets-in-councils-economic-development-plan/

“If you read the report … their assumption was, that of the next 40,000 households, 10,000 would not be able to afford more than $800 a month rent,” Elrich said at the press conference. “That’s 10,000 households earning less than $30,000, or around $30,000. The next 10,000 households could not afford more than $1,300 a month rent, which means a $52,000 or $50,000 income. …That’s not the kind of job profile that we’re trying to bring to Montgomery County.”

This is empirically incorrect. If they have nowhere to live in a legal rental, they will live in an illegal rental. Is that what you prefer?

No, PG county or PWC.

1. I would love for Elrich and his "progresssive" supporters to come out and admit they want to move the poors to PWC and PG

2. Where exactly are all the vacant rentals in PG and PWC? Seems like those apt complexes have people living in them already. Moving more poor people there means MORE crowded conditions in low income apt complexes there - or moving people even further out (but where?)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Heh, Greater Greater Washington is not news. It really isn't a valid source for anything. It is a pro-development blog, basically a YIMBY blog by upper middle class hipsters who want to make a buck on house flipping while posing as social justice warriors.

Clearly be keeping the poors and apt dwellers out of your nabe you are owning the hipsters there or something.