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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rather that busing we should take the Chevy Chase Country Club and Georgetown Prep campus by eminent domain and sell it to developers to build mixed use communities with new high schools at each site, with a stipulation that 30% of the housing be affordable housing and be available to Section 8. Rather than pit upper middle class people against lower middle class and working class people, let’s put the burden on the 1%. Let’s see how much the “progressives” on the council go for that idea.[/quote]

It's already 12.5-15% of all new housing in new developments in MoCo must be low-income housing. You can see a bunch of just a few hundred yards from CC country club, down Bradley near the fire station.[/quote]

And the funny part is how so many people don't understand that requiring below market housing forces up the cost of the other units (so even fewer people can afford the new units) and on and on it goes.  Economics is a thing.[/quote]

Economics is a complicated thing. The MPDU requirement does not necessarily increase the cost of other housing. Sometimes developers even proffer a greater % of MPDUs than required.

Plus the market alone cannot supply decent housing for people with low incomes, because the cost of building and maintaining that housing is more than they can afford - [/quote]

You take that land by eminent domain and the cost goes down dramatically. There is a lot of land in close-in Montgomery County that has for years served the rich and powerful. Land is taken for highways and other public interests all the time. We need more schools and we need more affordable housing and diversity in those schools. Again, rather than pit the UMC against the LMC and working class, let's put the burden of increasing diversity and getting a better education for our LMC and working class citizens on the 1% of the county, not the UMC folks who are being vilified as "elites" even though they don't have enough money to send their kids to private school.

[b]I guarentee you'd get more buy-in from people across the county (of all classes except the 1%) if you worked to achieve equity through up zoning eite neighborhoods like Chevy Chase,[/b] or outright taking over land of the 1% via eminent domain, than by the methods that are being advocated by these so-called progressives in the County, who will do everything to push "diversity" and "equity," as long as it doesn't upset their 1% donors.[/quote]

Um. I guess you didn't follow the Westbard sector plan saga. Or hear the screams of outrage when proposals were made to tax Congressional Country Club's property at its fair-market assessed value.[/quote]

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