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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We should have as much subsidized housing in Vienna, McLean, Great Falls, and Seneca as possible. Many of the single family units could be converted into duplexes and rented out. It would also help to diversify neighborhoods and schools. [/quote]

This is not about subsidized housing, though.

It's like people's minds are on a one-way track: housing --> affordable housing --> subsidized housing --> Section 8 --> Pruitt-Igoe.[/quote]

Ever look at row home , the old word for townhouse, prices in Mclean and Vienna?  800K?   And my tax dollars are supposed to fund the next stop up a duplex for low income buyers?  Look at old cities-Philly, DC.  Rowhome v a twin, old term for duplex unless the duplex was an apartment.  [/quote]

Are there many rowhouses/townhouses in McLean and Vienna?

Also no, a rowhouse is not a duplex - although both are single-family attached dwellings. Unless you want to think of a duplex as a rowhouse where the row of houses consists of 2 houses.[/quote]

Single family are detached free standing.  A twin is a side by side and duplexes are commonly 1 on top of the other.  We used to own a row house duplex.  There were 2 rows built of townhouse duplexes.  Townhouse is another term for rowhouses.  All attached on 2 sides except the end units which usually bring a higher price.

Zillow Mclean:
townhouses 9- 759k-1.6m
condos/coops 63-from a foreclosure and about 250k up to 2.49m
apartments 3 -why not under condo/ccop?  
SFH-235 - starts with a foreclosure then 824k up to an outlier at 24m before the next batch at about 7m.

So should someone buy and tear down an 850k property and build a row of 4 townhouses or even my old thing with 8 owners and 4 rentals on the ground floor?  Should the county build a 10 story affordable housing unit on Mclean Central Park?  Build on public land ?  Any extra acreage behind Langley?

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