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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]hmm.  I'm going to continue to respond with facts and statistics instead of just blanket statements- 
There is one school in APS that has an over 80% FARMS rate-- that is Carlin Springs.
http://www.pen.k12.va.us/support/nutrition/statistics/free_reduced_eligibility/2015-2016/schools/frpe_sch_report_sy2015-16.pdf

Now- lets look and see which of the 70 complexes with AH units are districted to Carlin Springs?
https://housing.arlingtonva.us/get-help/rental-services/affordable-units/  http://apsva.us/wp-content/uploads/legacy_assets/www/3334ac1ea7-ES_2016_Offical_Map_01222015.pdf
It appears that the only ones are;
the Fields of Arlington at 5100 S. 8th Road
Harvey Hall Apartments at 860 S. Greenbrier
Monterey Apartments also on S. Greenbrier
and the Shell on S. Greenbrier.

So that is 4 buildings out of 70-- hardly what I would call an intentional concentration of poverty.[/quote]

You forgot some of your "facts." The Serrano, Arbor Heights, and Key Gardens are all within the Carlin Springs boundary. The new buildings in Columbia Forest will be directly across the Pike from the neighborhood with the highest concentration of poverty in Arlington (even though it should feed to a different elementary, assuming the boundary isn't redrawn, and is not within the same civic association boundary, it's still at the west end of the Pike). And the Gilliam Place project will be built within the school boundary where Arlington Mill, some of the Barcroft Apartments, and Buchanan Gardens are zoned. Even in North Arlington, the AH is mostly clustered around Buckingham, and mostly concentrated within the same elementary school, Barrett.

The problem is that the "plan" to preserve and create AH in Arlington relies heavily on converting existing market rate AH into CAFs, and also on infill building on land already owned by the AH developers. For instance, the Columbia Hills project, being built on land owned by an AH developer on which an adjacent AH project already stands, is to be 229 units, and that is only "phase one." There are FOUR potential phases. Those units would be all within the same civic association boundary, and all feed to the same schools. While this may bring the maximum number of units to the County, they WILL BE CONCENTRATED, and they WILL BE CONCENTRATED in areas that are already poorer and have higher populations of racial/ethnic minorities within their civic association boundaries and neighborhood schools compared to the rest of Arlington. Quantity over quality. [/quote]

Thank you for bringing actual facts to this debate.
The above poster's "facts" get an easy gloss over. It seems legit when you link to that county webpages. They county doesn't want this debate. They set up the AH lobby to have an easy and disingenuous argument. 
I'm very heartened to see more people coming forward, either on the list servs, here, or by joining CARD. The people doing the pandering to AH need to be challenged. They are wrong. 
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