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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]

Yes and no. This is actually a self perpetuating problem in the west end on the Pike. Land is cheaper- so AHC comes in and builds "the shell", which is entirely affordable units. The value of the land stagnates because of exisiting affordable housing, so AHC developes the lot next to it because it's cheaper, and creates another building entirely of affordable housing. It keeps the cycle going and concentrates the poverty over a couple of blocks on the western end of the Pike. Thus creating a bit of a project.
This is what I don't want to see continue. If this is the plan, I think we need a new one.[/quote]

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