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[quote]Poor people don't have a right to have a nice quality or luxury housing in expensive areas, as much as you would want to be their savior. 
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Everyone has a right to safe, healthful shelter. It should be spread across all areas, so that we do not have economic segregation which produces MORE poverty.

I don't have to be their savior. The majorities of voters in DC, Alexandria, Arlington and MoCo agree with me. Together we will make the region better. [/quote]

You cannot give a chance to anyone to live anywhere they want, unless they want to get a tent and live as homeless on the street of their favorite neighborhood.  Shelters are not going to be embraced in expensive parts of the city and building adequate housing there would cost tons of money, someone has to pay for. Someone will be left over, low income families have higher chances scoring lottery housing in cheaper parts vs. expensive parts, there is never going to be enough cheap housing supply for them in expensive parts. No landlords or developers will forgo their bottom line.  You also forget about the "birds of feather" effect.  Affluent generally do not want to live next to poor and vice versa.  Achieving a healthy mix of different socio-economic groups artificially is a very difficult exercise.  It can happen organically given longer history and high density like it has in some parts of NYC, not happening in DC or other cities easily.

For your dreams to come true, RE has to stop being an asset, plain and simple.  It's almost like former socialist block countries where housing was government assigned and could not be sold/bought like commodity. [/quote]

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