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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m voting for Clement, too. I’m mostly a Democrat, but sometimes I lean independent. MMH is really not a solidly Democratic proposal. It isn’t helping diversity or affordable housing, though the Board initially tried to sell it this way. It’s really about density. [/quote]

So you’d support MMH if the board required a certain percentage of MMH to be CAFs or sold to low income individuals? [/quote]

No, I will not support any MMH. It’s not good enough to throw a few token CAFs into what they say will only be 120 MMH properties or less per year. What does that equal? 12 units? The County Board has tried to sell this as helping minorities and affordable housing. It doesn’t. It literally helps people making a minimum of 100k a year. And we all know it takes more than a 100k to afford a million dollar triplex unit. While there is a good chance that it will contribute to gentrification. [/quote]

If the County had been honest about what MMH is rather than trying to wrap it in a mantle of affordable housing (as in a $1.3M townhouse is more affordable than a $2.5 M single family home), diversity (the YIMBYs who are pushing it can buy properties throughout the County but want to have a $1,000,000 duplex in one of the five pre-dominantly white elementary schools in predominantly single family neighborhoods), and a "different type of housing."

Every type of housing they want exists in Arlington.  There are blocks and blocks of duplexes but they are not sparkling new and in the neighborhoods they prefer. They have said that any residential property over 40 years old should be razed, and that the properties available do not suit their needs. The other people pushing it are the typical retired government women who never did anything of note in their lives (including raising children who can afford to live in Arlington), the non-profits  like AHS, AHC, NAACP (even though the latter has been screwed over by gentrification), and cheerleading groups like the Chamber of Commerce.  The YIMBY group is younger white people who believe all the urbanist stuff pushed by Greater, Greater Washington and sound like they are over educated for their dead end jobs, are trying to get a paying gig going in urban economics, or need to get elected to the County board cos they have no job (Adam Theo), or are trustafarians who need something to do other than cash checks from the grandparents.

They make fun of people who don't want to haul their kids around in cargo bikes, want to have a single family home rather than live communally for the rest of their lives, and -- the ultimate -- are racists!

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