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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone condense these 20 pages into one or two sentences?

Does it boil down to[b] South Arlington people thinking their schools are crap and wanting to relocate low-income families to North Arlington[/b]? Or is it also North Arlington residents arguing you can be totally liberal, but still oppose any affordable housing if it's not within walking distance of a Metro station or a bus line on Columbia Pike?[/quote]

I can only speak for myself, but no.  It comes down to simply asking our County and their private partners to engage in best practices, as established by the Fair Housing Act and HUD.  Meaning, you don't build new committed affordable housing in areas that are already high poverty (by Arlington standards; we know it's not Baltimore or Detroit).  People are going to be displaced, like it or not, as South Arlington "gentrifies" because we cannot stop property owners from developing by right.  So those who individuals and families who will live in new committed affordable housing are the lucky few who have won the lottery and we should give those kids their best shot at improving their lives.  And that means not sending them to schools that are already very high poverty.  Yes, the "worst" school in Arlington is still better than the "worst" school in SE DC, but why would we spend our treasure to give them a slightly better shot at escaping poverty rather than the best possible shot we could give them?

As to who to vote for, I don't know that electing a "Republican" will achieve geographic distribution, but it might send a message to the ACDC that they need to course correct before they lose the vote of this ultra-liberal individual and others like me who have been following the national conversation about race, housing, and education, and feel that our elected leaders need to lead and make those tough choices because it is the right thing to do.  
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