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[quote=Anonymous]But flight of richer people out of poor areas is real and there is a real basis for it sometimes.  If you live in an area with single family homes and a block gets taken over with vacant homes that then fall to crime and drugs, etc., your property values go down and you can legitimately fear for your safety.

But there's no reason to flee if you live in 22213 or 22207 and the County builds one measly little affordable housing set of townhomes or apartment house in your zip code.  The whole neighborhood isn't falling apart!  And the rest of the neighborhood can't tilt over into chaos because the County doesn't have the money to buy more land in your zip code to push your zip code to the tilt point of low income housing.  If it's just an apartment house or two, you guys can totally deal, AND SHOULD, because it is GOOD for your schools to have at least some have nots in with your haves.

It's funny to me that these zip codes are so against having FARMS kids in their schools because they're worried about these kids being a bad influence on theirs.  I mean, I understand it's YOUR kids that have a problem with drugs once they get to high school since it's your kids who have extra disposable income lying around and no parents to supervise what they're doing because you're both working jobs with crazy hours to keep up with your neighbors.*  Some of you could really learn something from the FARM families about sacrifice and togetherness.

*Not everyone in these zip codes, obviously.  But it does seem to happen there.[/quote]

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