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Oh yes.  Another low income in my backyard please! Person.   In Ward 3!   Let’s not improve resources in other parts of the city that have room to build up.  What sense would that make when we can jam folks into Ward 3!  [/quote]

I hate to break it to you, but the other parts of the city are already built up. Please tell us where you would put this that provide a more equitable solution for all of our residents?[/quote]

Pretty much all of Wards 7 and 8.   The land of light industry, 2-story garden complexes and surface parking lots.   [/quote]

Concentrating affordable housing in Wards 7 and 8 won't be any more popular with Wards 7 and 8 than it is with Ward 3 -- and Ward 3 already has far less affordable or low-income housing than those wards do. [/quote]

Wards 7 and 8 already carry an over concentration of affordable housing. Ward 3 barely has any. What is your point?[/quote]

Ward 3 has the second highest amount of rent-controlled housing in the District, which provides more affordable housing to essential workers and people on fixed incomes.  Much of the lower cost housing is in older, smaller apartment buildings, but instead of doing everything to protect it, Bowser's government is creative incentives for more tear-downs and redevelopment into market rate housing.  The other problem is that the Bowser administration relies on so-called "inclusive zoning" in market-rate projects to provide "affordable" housing, But IZis not really affordable, because it is pegged in most cases at 80% of ADI and DC doesn't even enforce the statutory minimum IZ requirements.[/quote]

real factual information - thank you PP.   [/quote]

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