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As soon as you add in low-income housing, people will move. I remember years ago, when I bought my TH, neighbors said that they were looking at THs in the same hood - but these THs were across the street from Section 8 housing.  They said no way and moved over to my section.  The THs they originally looked at were better made, larger and encircled a lake (man-made).  But the Section 8 was enough to drive them away.  And we're talking moderately priced THs - not mansions!

Call it white flight; call it bright flight.  It's still flight.

So busing won't work b/c it's costly, but[b] neither will the move to spread low-income housing among regular housing[/b].  People will take their money and move farther out where zoning laws are stricter and set at 2+ acres.

not gonna solve a damn thing until we all dig deep and realize that most of this area is filled with people who will never admit to having racist beliefs[/quote]

Except that it actually is working, right here in Montgomery County. Montgomery County has had a Moderately Priced Dwelling Unit (MPDU) program since 1973. And people are not moving "further out" in Montgomery County -- the housing in highest demand (and therefore the housing that costs the most) is downcounty. What's more, the new "further out" Montgomery County neighborhoods, like Clarksburg, are basically the opposite of 2+ acres, and they have MPDUs.

But yes, the zoning laws are a problem. The good news is that the County is fixing some of those problems with the rewrite of the zoning code.[/quote]

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