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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]2k childcare that's the problem right there

Look DC and other major cities are nuts from real estate prices to childcare costs etc

Subsidizing isn't the solution though.  Look at healthcare you are taking from the middle class to give the lower class stuff for free.

The reality is if you aren't upper middle income you shouldn't be living in a high COL area.  There are plenty of other palces around the country where you can survive on 10-15 bucks an hour

Rent is less than 700 for a nice big 1br  and daycare is around 700 a month in many places around the country[/quote]

Is there an award for the most elitist post ever on DCUM?   And you want a family to live in a big 1 BR?   I suspect PP was ditch delivered by a drab and raised by wolves.

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FIne make it a 2br I don't care

Point being noone deserves to live anywhere or free healthcare or free childcare.  Its called responsibiltiy and choosing an area where you can afford to live (of which there are plenty across the US) and/or making choices working hard/education to make more income to then afford to be able to live in higher COL areas.  Call me elitist all you want.  It's what normal people have been doing for generations instead of whining or demanding government do stuff for them   [/quote]

So if normal people are living elsewhere in the country, you must live here, PP.[/quote]
This idea of affordable housing has expanded to such an extent that it is fueling "entitlement" attitudes. I live in a HCOL, with many high-end restaurants and shops. Developers are constructing a high-rise apartment building with rentals starting close to $3k for a 1-bedroom. But the county requires "workforce" housing so that the retail workers and waiters can afford to live there - and walk a block to work. (This is being paid for by taxpayers.) Rents for around 15% of these units will be a proportion of the income of these workers.

So here's the question: There are affordable apartment complexes around a mile or two away, with excellent bus service. Why do the taxpayers have to fund low-incime people living in luxury apartments (which I myself could not afford) so they get the convenience of walking to work instead of a five-minute bus ride. I work downtown, and my commute involves walking 10 minutes to the bus.....then taking the bus to metro.....then a 25-minute ride to DC....then another 10 minute walk to the office. Why do we think it's such a hardship for the low-income to take the bus? [/quote]

Besides feeling life is unfair, how does this set up hurt you? Fewer commuters on the road, less packed buses. It helps lower income retail and service workers save money on transport costs and ups the odds they won't be late for shift work jobs and thus be unemployed or docked wages.

Please name one substantial way affordable housing actually impacts your life, then we will have a discussion. But I bet you have nothing except "way wah wah"[/quote]
Ignoring the implied putdown of your "wah wah wah" remark....what a way to open a nice discussion huh?....it hurts me in that I am asked to pay more in taxes to help provide a lifestyle (luxury apartment a block or two from work) that I MYSELF could never afford! Why is it that the middle class, already burdened with escalating health care costs and rent, need subsidize people to a higher level than they themselves have?

And as far as it allowing the low-income to save money on bus fare, THAT would be a lot cheaper to subsidize than a luxury $3k apartment. I'm all for subsidizing the bus fare. But I have a horrible commute (walk to bus....15-minute bus ride to metro....25-minute metro to downtown....6 block walk to office), but I moved further out because that's what I could afford.

So sorry. If I can manage an hour-long commute involving a bus and metro, the low-income can take advantage of EXISTING affordable housing a five minute bus right away. They're not entitled to the convenience of walking to work when someone else has to subsidize that.

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