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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That’s the question. 
For a place that elects politicians that are so pro-egalitarianism why is there so much income inequality. I’ve seen Potomac and I’ve seen the slummy apartments in Wheaton and Silver Spring and the Soviet high-rises in White Oak. [/quote]

Why is virtually all of the low-income housing built in the eastern part of MoCo and never in Bethesda or Potomac?[/quote]

False premise. The "slummy apartments" in the eastern part of the county, which are now primarily lived in by low-income people, were not built to be "low-income housing." Same with the "slummy apartments" elsewhere in the county, for example Gaithersburg and Montgomery Village.

For [i]building[/i] low-income housing, the same requirements apply everywhere in the county.

Now, you might ask, "Why are there so few apartments in Potomac?" and the answer to that question is: the zoning does not allow it. The zoning should be modified to allow multi-family housing in more parts of the county, which would both add to the overall housing supply and provide more housing options for low-income people, but this would upset affluent people in Potomac, so I don't expect it to happen anytime soon.

In the long run, I don't think Potomac will remain an in-demand neighborhood. Most of the houses are nothing special, and the spread-out, car-dependent, no-sidewalk development pattern will appeal to ever fewer people with money.

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