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How is it a crisis if there is tons of affordable housing in VA and Md with easy city access? 
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I live in Va and I am not sure what the hell you are talking about.  We had a similar housing shortage here, even before Amazon and its getting worse.  Arlington and Alexandria are facing substantial loss of market rate affordable units, and are both scrambling to create/preserve committed affordable units. There is also activity to create AH in Falls Church and Fairfax, and this was a big issue in the recent Board of Supervisors election in Fairfax County.  To address shortages at higher income levels, there is massive new construction across NoVa,  some in Alexandria, more in Arlington, some in Falls Church, and in several parts of Fairfax (and now even Loudoun and PWC are doing transit oriented development).     Plus easy city access is questionable, and with highways maxed out major new transit investments are needed.

So you probably really mean Maryland.  But when you look closer you will see MoCo has the same issues as NoVa.  So you really mean PG County.   So we are talking about the old solution, send the poors to PG.

But as you will note even parts of PG (like Hyattsville) are getting gentrified.  And of course most of PG does not have great access - it has poor access to its metro stops, and congested highways.

So really you mean a relatively small area within walking distance of the PG metro stations.

Most of which are filled with existing SFHs, which are occupied by families.[/quote]

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