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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who needs buyers when you can rent to recent grads at $2,500-3,000/month[/quote]

I think that is a valid point[/quote]

Yes, this is what will happen.  Multifamily housing will be rentals.  There will be more opportunity to rent in Arlington and less opportunity to own a home.  This is already a county of renters and it will become even moreso under the Missing Middle changes.  Whether that is good or bad is a matter of opinion, but it’s undoubtedly the truth of the matter.[/quote]

You are correct  It is a way to introduce more renters into single family neighborhoods.  Investors will buy those 4 plexes and rent them to people who want to be in the school district. As more multifamily are built, the neighborhood will become less desirable, and the single family homes will continue to be torn down for multifamily. Then the neighborhood won't be the neighborhood, the YIMBYs thought they would have.  They could have stayed in Columbia Heights and gotten the same type of schools, crimes, and unsavory neighbors.[/quote]

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