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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.”[/quote]
OP here.. I tend to agree, but I just thought Elrich was super progressive, so this article came as a surprise to me.

But then what is he doing to bring in higher paying jobs? I'm not seeing it.  Lower the taxes; invest infrastructure, then businesses may come in.   I read an interview with a business developer who has business ventures in MoCo and NoVa, and he thinks MoCo's issue is the infrastructure.[/quote]

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