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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Friedson leads by 6 in the latest poll

Friedson 25 
Jawando19
Glass 18[/quote]

You mean Friedson leads in the poll that Friedson managed and published.  Shocking.[/quote]

Friedson is the only one airing ads on TV. Why? Because the developers pay him so.much.money.

All he wants is to upzone everything and bulldoze single family home neighborhoods. His talk of “attainable” housing - not affordable housing, which is needed - made me want to vomit.

I don’t think MoCo voters are that stupid.[/quote]

Montgomery County has plenty of affordable housing.[i] You can get SFHs near Forest Glen, Glenmont, and Wheaton Metro stations for as much as SFHs in a lot of neighborhoods in Baltimore City. [/i]Compared to Northern Virginia and DC, Montgomery County is dirt cheap.

The problem is not affordable housing, it’s incentivizing more high income, young DINKs and businesses to come to the county and pushing the brakes on all these projects that attract people who take more in services than they contribute in taxes.

There was a recent report that 126,000 MD residents go to NoVa for work. From an economic standpoint that is pathetic, and it has a lot of detrimental environmental effects as well, much more than getting a plastic bag at a grocery store.[/quote]

Gmafb. The median price for an SFH in Baltimore City is around $324,000. The median in 20902 is $600,000. Almost double.[/quote]

The median household income in Baltimore City is well under $100,000. Median income, median house prices, and median rents are linked. You can’t escape it. The same pattern repeats across the country. Adam Smith knew in the 18th century that the value of land is whatever people can afford to pay. Try looking at the housing market through that lens and you’ll quickly realize the market won’t do much to reduce housing costs because it doesn’t have to. [/quote]

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