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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So a house on 5041 25th Street S sold for $560k (4 beds 1 bath) to a developer who is going to tear it down and build 2 houses that probably cost a million each. Perfect example of pricing people out of Arlington - it’s going to be all renters and rich people. The proponents of MMH were so dishonest (or just really uninformed) - this was never going to help bring affordable housing or more housing for minorities - just more density.

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The alternative was a builder buys it and builds a single 2.0 million house. Last time I checked 1.0 million is less than 2.0 million. It's adding more options in the middle.

No one ever said it was for affordable housing - you misunderstood them. 
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Well, the MM proponents were happy to have it misunderstood as "affordable housing" but plenty of people said it wouldn't be.

Looking at street view for that house/street, it actually seems like the kind of area where townhomes or a 4/6-plex would make sense. Very old, run down houses just off Route 7, behind a Taco Bell. Not a great location for a $2M house.[/quote]

Literally no one said it was going to be affordable housing. 
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Many said it would be “affordable” housing but redefined “affordable” as the above poster did.  A $1.5 million townhouse is more affordable than a $2.5 million single house.

Many also inferred it would be affordable because Arlington County did a miserable PR  job in rolling out the plan [/quote]

“Many” were pushing a false narrative or were too lazy to actually read the proposal. 
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