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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When did the shift from capitalism to socialism happen? It's not just Arlington. [/quote]

We're not talking about socialism. 
Educating our children is part of the social contract. Making sure they grow up in stable homes with food on the table is better for everyone. 
But the streetcar got cancelled and all of the promised gentrification went down the tubes with it.
People are starting to look at this Pike neighborhood plan, and ask some important questions. Those neighborhood schools aren't doing so great. What happens if you add more poverty to them? They were supposedly going to be propped up by more middle class density. That hasn't materialized.
How are people living in these areas supposed to be well served if businesses won't invest in the area, because it's super poor?

North Arlington parents aren't divorced from this problem. They helped these policies along. It's time for them to pitch in. Time for them to be part of the solution.

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Now now, CARD. Let's dial down the rhetoric.

The CAFs you bemoan are REPLACING market-rate affordable units. The subsidies go to replace bottom-dollar market units with public investment in mixed-income quality units. That is a GOOD thing.

NORTH Arlington has the majority of CAFs in Arlington. No, not South Arlington, Reid, but rather NORTH Arlington.

IF you want the "burden" spread, then support the promotion of zoning changes to fill in the "missing middle" with 3-5 story density tapering from the Metro corridor, Lee Highway, North Glebe Road, Lorcom Lane, Williamsburg Blvd, and other transportation corridors. Support broader promotion of in-law suites and the like.

Beyond that, call out as sheer NONSENSE "proposals" to run high school classes from 6:00 AM to 11:00 PM. Hold accountable the people whose shortsightedness leads to the embrace of relocatables that try to provide classrooms without infrastructure. BTW--those same people also bought if not promoted the anti-streetcar demagoguery.

Stop blaming "the poors" for problems that others have cynically propagated. You don't get to leverage state tax credits, restricted-use transportation funding, and Federal education incentive funding when you simply cut property taxes and starve yourself of the minimum tax revenue to unlock those streams.

People who are partners in law firms that engage in housing finance know that very, very well.

Whether they tell you that when they run for office is another matter.[/quote]

The CAF's being built along Columbia Pike aren't replacing Mark's. At least not right now. They might be replacing future lost housing, but as of now- they're all still around. Yes, it is supposed to be mixed income. That's what they sold us. It's not what we've been getting. 
Yes, north Arlington has a larger number of Affordable units. The problem with south Arlington is how they are, and continue to be concentrated.
The anti streetcar crowd... The opposition to that made some strange bed fellows. 
As a south Arlington home owner I do not support in law suites. I understand why people want them, but I also know how that will play out in my hood. I would like my neighborhood to remain single family. I would like to raise my kids, having the same kind of neighborhood experience as my older neighbors did. The difference being my family and others of my generation are sacrificing a much larger percentage of our earnings to do it.
I've never blamed the "poors". I blame those making  policy, patting themselves on the back, and hiding behind " the Arlington way". [/quote]

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