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[quote=Anonymous]After I read through this thread, this story started sounding familiar.  I looked up the names of these places and checked on the minimum and maximum income limits for renting these places.

One place is called Stockwell Manor; another is called Bryson at Woodland Park.  This link will lead you to the minimum and maximum income based on unit size and family size. http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/rha/rentalhousingprograms/fcrp-mirp-chart.htm

For example, if you want to rent a two-bedroom unit and you have a family of four, you must have a minimum income of $27,429 and you cannot have an income higher than $71,900.  The income minimums actually keep the very very poor out of these communities but might be within reach of the working poor.  But the reality is that a lot of these types of housing are aimed more at providing workforce housing - so, say, a teacher, or a firefighter could afford to live near their work rather than driving in from rural Virginia.

Personally if I lived in a community like this, I would prefer it if it had some affordable housing - so I can have teachers as neighbors or firefighters or cashiers or janitors (who also want to be near their jobs).  And remember this is only a few units - it's not like they're going to crowd out the upper middle class professionals.  This is good social policy and makes the community better for everyone (at least in my view) in that people are not completely segregated by class.  Just like public education and public roads, adding a few units of housing which is affordable to people who are not upper middle class is a public good.[/quote]

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