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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My relatives who are moving into affordable housing or currently live there do NOT have children, so please do not discriminate against them. They are 70 and 72 and the others are going to be 71 and 74. They are NOT taking up spaces in schools aside from ESOL classes in the afternoon when most activities are completed for the day.

Affordable housing is important to people like me. Being able to have my family here so close is priceless. I have lived in Arlington for 5 years so I have definitely paid my share.[/quote]

Five years in Arlington.  And you are importing your relatives to take places in senior citizen housing that is denied to people who have lived and contributed to Arlingt6on for 50 or 60 years but have just a little too much money to qualify for Claridge House, Culpeper Gardens, Hunter Place, or The Carlin.

You are exactly what the problem is with affordable housing.  You import your parents to live in the housing.  Others will import their nannies and caregivers to live in the affordable housing so that they can pay them less money.

You, PP, are the problem.[/quote]

Do excuse my ignorance as I am not very knowledgeable about public housing. So, PP's relatives come from an outside country, have paid nothing into taxes but they get the affordable housing. WHY and HOW???? For the record, I am an immigrant, my parents visit me often, they live with us and we take full responsibility of their well being and they carry traveler health insurance. If this is not a troll, then this is a serious issue for this country AND SOMEBODY JUST SHOOT ME. I can't even imagine how they can qualify. I will be FLAMED for this, are these relatives Hispanic?[/quote]

Forgive me if I'm reading this wrong, but Affordable Housing is not Assisted Living correct. So all of the people who have been in Arlington for 50-60 years should already [i]own their own[/i] homes. So what are you bitching about? This is mostly to the person complaining about Claridge House/Culpeper Gardens etc? If they do, those houses are worth their weight in gold - sell it and let your parents live out the rest of their lives in a palatial senior citizen community. If they sat in Arlington and rented for 50-something years I don't know what to tell you.[/quote]

Newsflash:  Not everyone had the means to own their own home and are sitting on a golden nestegg.No, these are not 50 to 60 year residents of Arlington who paid $29,000 for their house in 1968 and it is now worth $800,000. These are the government secretaries, retired enlisted military, blue collar and pink collar workers who rented in Arlington for many years.  They may not have directly paid real estate taxes, but they contributed to the tax base and the civic life in Arlington in many other ways.  They now have just slightly too much income to qualify for subsidized senior citizen housing -- not assisted living -- just a safe decent place to live.   I deliver Meals on Wheels (which they pay for) to many of them. They would like to live in a place where some services were available to them, but they lack the money to live in places like Green Spring or Goodwin House, but make too much to live in the AH senior housing.

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