What to do about Affordable Housing in Arlington?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I came here because it was the only close in place where I could get an apartment that was a reasonable debt to income ratio and have free parking. I could take the Metro or drive to work with ease. That was back on '05. I liked it and stayed, convinced my husband that we should buy a house here. Now we live in S Arl and are demanding good schools and reasonable housing plans.

And we signed that petition.

You sound like us!
We signed too

Us, too!

[Anonymous]

All of you realize more affordable housing = more overcrowded schools right

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of you realize more affordable housing = more overcrowded schools right

Ummm... Yeah. There are like 10 pages here of people saying that.

[Anonymous]

My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Five years in Arlington. And you are importing your relatives to take places in senior citizen housing that is denied to people who have lived and contributed to Arlingt6on for 50 or 60 years but have just a little too much money to qualify for Claridge House, Culpeper Gardens, Hunter Place, or The Carlin.

You are exactly what the problem is with affordable housing. You import your parents to live in the housing. Others will import their nannies and caregivers to live in the affordable housing so that they can pay them less money.

You, PP, are the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Five years in Arlington. And you are importing your relatives to take places in senior citizen housing that is denied to people who have lived and contributed to Arlingt6on for 50 or 60 years but have just a little too much money to qualify for Claridge House, Culpeper Gardens, Hunter Place, or The Carlin.

You are exactly what the problem is with affordable housing. You import your parents to live in the housing. Others will import their nannies and caregivers to live in the affordable housing so that they can pay them less money.

You, PP, are the problem.

Do excuse my ignorance as I am not very knowledgeable about public housing. So, PP's relatives come from an outside country, have paid nothing into taxes but they get the affordable housing. WHY and HOW???? For the record, I am an immigrant, my parents visit me often, they live with us and we take full responsibility of their well being and they carry traveler health insurance. If this is not a troll, then this is a serious issue for this country AND SOMEBODY JUST SHOOT ME. I can't even imagine how they can qualify. I will be FLAMED for this, are these relatives Hispanic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Paid your share of....?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Let's say you live in a $500,000 home. That's maybe $5,000 a year, so $25,000 total into the tax coffers.

Even if you took NOTHING else from Arlington, which is of course impossible, that doesn't even cover the cost of one of the AH homes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Let's say you live in a $500,000 home. That's maybe $5,000 a year, so $25,000 total into the tax coffers.

Even if you took NOTHING else from Arlington, which is of course impossible, that doesn't even cover the cost of one of the AH homes.

Wrong way to look. You may not need this service. Or you might. That is why its called social INSURANCE. Like evaluating if someone who had cancer is taking too much from health insurance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Five years in Arlington. And you are importing your relatives to take places in senior citizen housing that is denied to people who have lived and contributed to Arlingt6on for 50 or 60 years but have just a little too much money to qualify for Claridge House, Culpeper Gardens, Hunter Place, or The Carlin.

You are exactly what the problem is with affordable housing. You import your parents to live in the housing. Others will import their nannies and caregivers to live in the affordable housing so that they can pay them less money.

You, PP, are the problem.

Do excuse my ignorance as I am not very knowledgeable about public housing. So, PP's relatives come from an outside country, have paid nothing into taxes but they get the affordable housing. WHY and HOW???? For the record, I am an immigrant, my parents visit me often, they live with us and we take full responsibility of their well being and they carry traveler health insurance. If this is not a troll, then this is a serious issue for this country AND SOMEBODY JUST SHOOT ME. I can't even imagine how they can qualify. I will be FLAMED for this, are these relatives Hispanic?

Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but Affordable Housing is not Assisted Living correct. So all of the people who have been in Arlington for 50-60 years should already own their own homes. So what are you bitching about? This is mostly to the person complaining about Claridge House/Culpeper Gardens etc? If they do, those houses are worth their weight in gold - sell it and let your parents live out the rest of their lives in a palatial senior citizen community. If they sat in Arlington and rented for 50-something years I don't know what to tell you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Five years in Arlington. And you are importing your relatives to take places in senior citizen housing that is denied to people who have lived and contributed to Arlingt6on for 50 or 60 years but have just a little too much money to qualify for Claridge House, Culpeper Gardens, Hunter Place, or The Carlin.

You are exactly what the problem is with affordable housing. You import your parents to live in the housing. Others will import their nannies and caregivers to live in the affordable housing so that they can pay them less money.

You, PP, are the problem.

Do excuse my ignorance as I am not very knowledgeable about public housing. So, PP's relatives come from an outside country, have paid nothing into taxes but they get the affordable housing. WHY and HOW???? For the record, I am an immigrant, my parents visit me often, they live with us and we take full responsibility of their well being and they carry traveler health insurance. If this is not a troll, then this is a serious issue for this country AND SOMEBODY JUST SHOOT ME. I can't even imagine how they can qualify. I will be FLAMED for this, are these relatives Hispanic?

Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but Affordable Housing is not Assisted Living correct. So all of the people who have been in Arlington for 50-60 years should already own their own homes. So what are you bitching about? This is mostly to the person complaining about Claridge House/Culpeper Gardens etc? If they do, those houses are worth their weight in gold - sell it and let your parents live out the rest of their lives in a palatial senior citizen community. If they sat in Arlington and rented for 50-something years I don't know what to tell you.

That's who would qualify. Or someone who is permanently disabled and unable to work, ever, who may or may not already live in the county. People who have owned their homes for decades are sitting on gold mines, and despite fixed incomes (which likely make them eligible for either tax deferment or forgiveness) would not qualify, nor should they, for this housing. Arlington should not be in the business of enriching the heirs of those who've won the real estate jackpot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Five years in Arlington. And you are importing your relatives to take places in senior citizen housing that is denied to people who have lived and contributed to Arlingt6on for 50 or 60 years but have just a little too much money to qualify for Claridge House, Culpeper Gardens, Hunter Place, or The Carlin.

You are exactly what the problem is with affordable housing. You import your parents to live in the housing. Others will import their nannies and caregivers to live in the affordable housing so that they can pay them less money.

You, PP, are the problem.

Do excuse my ignorance as I am not very knowledgeable about public housing. So, PP's relatives come from an outside country, have paid nothing into taxes but they get the affordable housing. WHY and HOW???? For the record, I am an immigrant, my parents visit me often, they live with us and we take full responsibility of their well being and they carry traveler health insurance. If this is not a troll, then this is a serious issue for this country AND SOMEBODY JUST SHOOT ME. I can't even imagine how they can qualify. I will be FLAMED for this, are these relatives Hispanic?

Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but Affordable Housing is not Assisted Living correct. So all of the people who have been in Arlington for 50-60 years should already own their own homes. So what are you bitching about? This is mostly to the person complaining about Claridge House/Culpeper Gardens etc? If they do, those houses are worth their weight in gold - sell it and let your parents live out the rest of their lives in a palatial senior citizen community. If they sat in Arlington and rented for 50-something years I don't know what to tell you.

Newsflash: Not everyone had the means to own their own home and are sitting on a golden nestegg.No, these are not 50 to 60 year residents of Arlington who paid $29,000 for their house in 1968 and it is now worth $800,000. These are the government secretaries, retired enlisted military, blue collar and pink collar workers who rented in Arlington for many years. They may not have directly paid real estate taxes, but they contributed to the tax base and the civic life in Arlington in many other ways. They now have just slightly too much income to qualify for subsidized senior citizen housing -- not assisted living -- just a safe decent place to live. I deliver Meals on Wheels (which they pay for) to many of them. They would like to live in a place where some services were available to them, but they lack the money to live in places like Green Spring or Goodwin House, but make too much to live in the AH senior housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Five years in Arlington. And you are importing your relatives to take places in senior citizen housing that is denied to people who have lived and contributed to Arlingt6on for 50 or 60 years but have just a little too much money to qualify for Claridge House, Culpeper Gardens, Hunter Place, or The Carlin.

You are exactly what the problem is with affordable housing. You import your parents to live in the housing. Others will import their nannies and caregivers to live in the affordable housing so that they can pay them less money.

You, PP, are the problem.

Do excuse my ignorance as I am not very knowledgeable about public housing. So, PP's relatives come from an outside country, have paid nothing into taxes but they get the affordable housing. WHY and HOW???? For the record, I am an immigrant, my parents visit me often, they live with us and we take full responsibility of their well being and they carry traveler health insurance. If this is not a troll, then this is a serious issue for this country AND SOMEBODY JUST SHOOT ME. I can't even imagine how they can qualify. I will be FLAMED for this, are these relatives Hispanic?

I posted earlier - when I lived in Barcroft Apts, I would often run into neighbors who would always introduce themselves with how long they had lived there. Many had been there since the 70s and 80s. I used to wonder if somehow they can bought their units, but its more likely they had rented there the whole time. I hope its these folks who would be moving into a new senior AH building, into something nicer.

Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but Affordable Housing is not Assisted Living correct. So all of the people who have been in Arlington for 50-60 years should already own their own homes. So what are you bitching about? This is mostly to the person complaining about Claridge House/Culpeper Gardens etc? If they do, those houses are worth their weight in gold - sell it and let your parents live out the rest of their lives in a palatial senior citizen community. If they sat in Arlington and rented for 50-something years I don't know what to tell you.

Newsflash: Not everyone had the means to own their own home and are sitting on a golden nestegg.No, these are not 50 to 60 year residents of Arlington who paid $29,000 for their house in 1968 and it is now worth $800,000. These are the government secretaries, retired enlisted military, blue collar and pink collar workers who rented in Arlington for many years. They may not have directly paid real estate taxes, but they contributed to the tax base and the civic life in Arlington in many other ways. They now have just slightly too much income to qualify for subsidized senior citizen housing -- not assisted living -- just a safe decent place to live. I deliver Meals on Wheels (which they pay for) to many of them. They would like to live in a place where some services were available to them, but they lack the money to live in places like Green Spring or Goodwin House, but make too much to live in the AH senior housing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Five years in Arlington. And you are importing your relatives to take places in senior citizen housing that is denied to people who have lived and contributed to Arlingt6on for 50 or 60 years but have just a little too much money to qualify for Claridge House, Culpeper Gardens, Hunter Place, or The Carlin.

You are exactly what the problem is with affordable housing. You import your parents to live in the housing. Others will import their nannies and caregivers to live in the affordable housing so that they can pay them less money.

You, PP, are the problem.

+1. I do agree 5 years is nothing to senior's 30 to 50 years. Does smack of common sense of entitlement without decades of paying in as many of us have. Seniors are in a real bind with fixed income and no COLA. Arlington and other counties/ cities should take care of their Seniors also. Moral bankruptcy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.

Five years in Arlington. And you are importing your relatives to take places in senior citizen housing that is denied to people who have lived and contributed to Arlingt6on for 50 or 60 years but have just a little too much money to qualify for Claridge House, Culpeper Gardens, Hunter Place, or The Carlin.

You are exactly what the problem is with affordable housing. You import your parents to live in the housing. Others will import their nannies and caregivers to live in the affordable housing so that they can pay them less money.

You, PP, are the problem.

Do excuse my ignorance as I am not very knowledgeable about public housing. So, PP's relatives come from an outside country, have paid nothing into taxes but they get the affordable housing. WHY and HOW???? For the record, I am an immigrant, my parents visit me often, they live with us and we take full responsibility of their well being and they carry traveler health insurance. If this is not a troll, then this is a serious issue for this country AND SOMEBODY JUST SHOOT ME. I can't even imagine how they can qualify. I will be FLAMED for this, are these relatives Hispanic?

Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but Affordable Housing is not Assisted Living correct. So all of the people who have been in Arlington for 50-60 years should already own their own homes. So what are you bitching about? This is mostly to the person complaining about Claridge House/Culpeper Gardens etc? If they do, those houses are worth their weight in gold - sell it and let your parents live out the rest of their lives in a palatial senior citizen community. If they sat in Arlington and rented for 50-something years I don't know what to tell you.

Newsflash: Not everyone had the means to own their own home and are sitting on a golden nestegg.No, these are not 50 to 60 year residents of Arlington who paid $29,000 for their house in 1968 and it is now worth $800,000. These are the government secretaries, retired enlisted military, blue collar and pink collar workers who rented in Arlington for many years. They may not have directly paid real estate taxes, but they contributed to the tax base and the civic life in Arlington in many other ways. They now have just slightly too much income to qualify for subsidized senior citizen housing -- not assisted living -- just a safe decent place to live. I deliver Meals on Wheels (which they pay for) to many of them. They would like to live in a place where some services were available to them, but they lack the money to live in places like Green Spring or Goodwin House, but make too much to live in the AH senior housing.

You know what. I didn't really realize that - I admit it & my tone was a bit flippant. I grew up with a family that always prioritized home ownership above anything else so it never occurred to me to consider...otherwise.