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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hmmmm...let's do this instead: take your highly paid wrath and organize the highly paid parents around you to subsidize some apartments that are actually affordable in the Janney boundary for those making less than $48,000 per year.

Here's the deal: DC has a real affordable housing problem.  We have children living in shelters because their parents can't pay the rent even though 80% of them work.  [b]So then poor people move to the suburbs but still want to use city services. [/b] Clearly you have some free time on your hands.  Use this time to work on the real problem: poor folks who can't afford day care also can't afford to live in DC, while those of us who can afford day care are getting free day care while living in our expensive homes.

Shift the problem on its head: support fair wages and mixed income housing to welcome back some who were pushed out to undesirable suburbs over the past 15 years.  Then you will see the Maryland plates turn back into DC plates.  [/quote]

Why not use the services where they live? There are some high earners in these suburbs. Why not let their taxes foot this bill? Are you also in favor of DC's implicit policy of importing all the homeless people in the greater area? The suburbs should shoulder their share of the costs.

Anyway, you are assuming that all the residency cheaters are extremely poor. My bet is that many of these families have a combined HHI within striking range of 6 figures. The very poor wouldn't have the logistics capability to make it work. Transport, for example.  
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