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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why will affordable housing in wealthy areas make dcc or NEC better? [b]It'll just make the richer areas worse. [/b]What is the point? I'd rather focus efforts on serving middle class kids needs in these zones (in the form of a consortium or otherwise) through tracking more magnet better teacher etc. or just showing middle class families that they are also an important part of the dcc/NEC landscape. Sure you can jiggle to boundaries a bit but you'll just punish families who chose to stay and make a go in SS[/quote]

How will affordable housing in e.g. Bethesda and Potomac make those areas "worse"?[/quote]

Because "affordable housing" means "the projects", and Bethesda and Potomac will turn into Cabrini-Green. Everybody knows that!

In fact, in Montgomery County, "affordable housing" is based on the HUD Area Median Household Income (AMI), which for 2014 is $107,000. One of the county's affordable housing programs is workforce housing, which is housing affordable to households with up to 120% of the AMI ($128,400 in 2014). Another of the county's affordable housing programs is Moderately Priced Dwelling Units (MPDUs), for which the minimum household income is $35,000, and the maximum household income this year ranges from $52,500 for a household of 1 to $81,000 to a household of 5.

http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/DHCA/housing/singlefamily/mpdu/programsales.html#Are you Eligible?

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Yes, I'm eligible and have been living in an MPDU through the City of Rockville for the last 12 years - in a well-off neighborhood that goes to a good school district.  I do think that increasing affordable housing within mixed-use communities will help with this problem of segregation and will give more children the opportunity to go to schools that are better performing.[/quote]

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