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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First they were ending gymnastics at Barcroft.

Now they are closing Cherrydale library?

Are they just pulling out worst case scenarios they can walk back after gaining concessions elsewhere?

There has been huge growth in APS administrators so has that increased expenses.

As well as direct housing assistance has ballooned to almost 10% of the budget. [/quote]

They need to freeze the housing assistance program to new applicants until it declines to 5% of the county budget or less. This is absurd to spend that much money on handouts. [/quote]

What? I thought all housing assistance was simply credits to builders to allow them to build higher density (you can go up 10% if provide 10 below market rate units etc). We pay out cash to landlords for people to live here?[/quote]

Yes, the county is paying peoples rent through housing voucher programs. Arlington voluntarily adds a significant amount of funding for county funded housing vouchers in addition to the federally funded housing vouchers. [/quote]

There’s also some sort of “investment” fund designed to support the construction of affordable units. At an an average cost of $400k or something like that. For that money, we could build smaller row houses and let actual firefighters and teachers buy them via lottery. Instead, we subsidize uber drivers from PG, first to build the unit, then to subsidize the rent, forever. And at the end of the day, they have nothing to show for it and can be evicted on a week’s notice if they let another adult stay or their kid brings home a dog. [/quote]

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