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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Two-bedroom apartments back in Culmore go for about $1800/mo, by the time you factor in utilities and all the various additional fees they charge for this and that.  (And boy is the housing stock bad.)  Meanwhile the population makes minimum wage or less.  You want to talk about SAHM's: Very few of the moms back in Culmore work in the formal-sector economy, because daycare is so expensive.  (Lots more work in the informal sector, for example as babysitters for cash.)  So no wonder they stack up two families to an apartment: otherwise they'd be out on the streets homeless, there's no other way to pay the rent.  If the county started enforcing code on those apartments, they would be a ghost town, nobody would live in such junky apartments if they had to pay the full rent by themselves.

So why don't they just move to another part of the county where, in large part, the rents are a bit lower and the conditions are better?  Two reasons. One, Culmore has excellent bus access.  Two, they love Bailey's and feel that their kids are being well served there.[/quote]

Because rent is a "bit" lower, not a "lot" lower, but in the other areas, they're not going to let 4 families in an apartment slide. (It isn't 2 families to an apartment, it is routinely 3+, sometimes as many as 13-15 people per apartment.) And because it is a majority of immigrant, non-English speakers from the same areas who feel comfortable with one another and the community they've built. Many of these people have an elementary education if they have an education at all, so while yes, they may feel they're being "well served" by Bailey's, but that's doesn't really correlate to whether they are or not when you are talking about parents whose only comparison is schools in Central America and who often don't even know the name of the school their kids attend. (And if you think I'm BSing, I'm not, I am a social worker for the county and this a real, ongoing problem in that community.)[/quote]

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