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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you all keep talking about Gilliam place as primarily for seniors? It is not. Only 11 of the 173 units are accessible. There is no age restrictions now on any of the websites. It was sold to the community as senior housing, but as it usually happens, there is a bait and switch. This is family housing everyone, and that was the plan from the get go. It is a strategy apah and ahc use because there is a growing resistance to more cafs full of children. [/quote]

Amen!  But I guarantee you, the CAFs at the American Legion project in north Arlington will be senior units, studios, and one-bedrooms.[/quote]
If you bothered to look at the submitted plan you would know that it is supposed to be 100% CAF with 160 units (48 units (30%) 1 bedroom, 87 units (54%) 2 bedrooms, and 25 units (16%) 3 bedrooms).
But I am sure that APAH will only predict about 20 students. Plus once they redo the rezoning, they will get sent to Ashlawn or Glebe so they don’t impact any of the low FARMs schools.[/quote]

The submitted plan doesn't mean much.  As noted in the original post, how it's presented initially is not necessarily what actually gets built.  That's the point.  So, I'll be thrilled to see all of those units house 60% AMI and below APS students.[/quote]

As noted in the original post they sometimes try to pitch affordable housing as for seniors, due to growing resistance to more CAFs full of children. They are not doing that here. There is no bait and switch, it is being pitched as family housing. Can you point to another project where the number of CAFs for families decreased significantly from the submitted plans.[/quote]

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