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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]22:43 so, then the affordable housing in arlington is not doing the job you say it can. If that were true, s arlington schools would have the scores equal to north arlington. [/quote]

But the affordable housing we are talking about (the "committed" affordable housing provided by the county/private partnerships) is not concentrated in South Arlington.  An economist in our neighborhood studied this recently and found that the number of affordable housing units in north and south Arlington are almost exactly the same.  These units do, for the most part, have one thing in common, but it's not a South Arlington location.  If you plot the affordable housing units on a county map, you will see that they are clustered on or near major thoroughfares and bus routes.  Columbia Pike is just one example.

So, it's not affordable housing that is making South Arlington poorer.  It's the fact that the market rate affordable housing (a very different thing) is clustered in South Arlington.  The market - not the county - has dictated that.   [/quote]

I'd love to see the study your neighborhood did. I find all of this fascinating. I had brought up market rate affordable earlier in the thread. You are correct. Most of the affordable units along Colimbia Pike are market rate. The county counts them among their affordable housing, but these buildings can be renovated/ torn down and become high end rentals or condos. That was my point earlier that the county has waited too long to strategize how they are going to keep affordable housing in the county. There is a lot of talk about the importance of it, and they have a couple of projects coming up, but they can't hold onto the number they've got now. I wish I could remember the number of units lost over the last decade. It's not slowing. The gentrification of South Arlington is real.
Interesting what was said about children thriving in commited affordable housing and are stressed in market rate affordable. That makes sense, but I hadn't considered that before.
There are some very nice and well maintained garden apartments along the Pike. I'd actually hate to see them all go. The complexes ( Quebec and Westmont apts) near my neighborhood are full of very nice neighbors. They are older buildings, but I find them charming and safe. I'm glad people who earn less have good options for housing and good schools for their kids.
Now Barcroft... That place can't be torn down soon enough. It's shameful.

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