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[quote=Anonymous]Elrich is incompetent but housing is an issue. The County, like the rest of the area, is growing in population.

If you look at areas like Silver Spring up Georgia Ave, Langley Park, and parts of Rockville (Rollins Ave behind the strip malls), there is lots of affordable housing there. High-rise apartment buildings or garden apartments. Nothing fancy, but nice enough and not too crazy price-wise.

But what's being built now if you look at Rockville or Bethesda where a lot of the high-density housing is going in, is luxury condos and apartments. I dont' blame the developer -- most of your costs are in the structure not the interior, so if it's $10mln to build low-income and $13mln to build luxury, spend the extra $3mln because you'll make it back in much higher rent/sales prices.

So how do we fix this? More incentives to build lower-price units? They already have to build 10-15% of units for low-income, but it's not enough.

Or maybe we zone parts of upcounty for high-density? How many apartment high-rises are there in Clarksburg?[/quote]

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