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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real solution to this would be to have committed affordable housing in Fairlington.  Then they could have kept the neighborhood together (I agree it really is one neighborhood, and walkable throughout) and also have had SES diversity at Abingdon ES.  [/quote]

Actually the real solution is to stop building f'ing affordable housing.  We do not have the infrastructure to support continuing to increase the population, especially a population that often needs additional wrap-around services.  I have nothing against poor people, but I have lots against a County Board that doesn't give a crap about our students.

I don't support AH on the Pike.  I don't support it on Lee Highway.  It's like Green Eggs and Ham.  I do not like it anywhere.  
Rant over.[/quote]

Amen. I could not care less about affordable housing. You can’t afford to live in Arlington, tough. I’d feel differently if maybe our teachers or firefighters or police officers were living in affordable housing, but they’re not. So let it die.

Flame away.[/quote]

Wow. Just wow. Let them eat cake I guess. [/quote]

Wait - so these folks are literally starving? As in, famine? Plenty of middle class families live in more affordable areas and put up with a longer commute. You're telling me with all the County's budget cuts - and way more to come - Arlington can afford to bring MORE people here, and have taxpayers foot the bill? It's ridiculous. [/quote]

It was a metaphor. So let me be less subtle. “Poor people” don’t deserve to live where they work? Hard to keep employees in low paying but necessary jobs then. All those people who work in the service industries you use should have hour-long commutes each way to work in a grocery store? Affordable housing is extremely competitive. There will never be enough for the need. 
You’d probably be surprised at the diversity of who qualifies for affordable housing and how you interact with them in Arlington. [/quote]

Oh please. There is PLENTY of “market rate” affordable housing in Arlington - which is great! The entire Barcroft Apartments + lots of Columbia Pike, all of those buildings in Westover, on Lee Hwy, etc. I’m saying there is no need to continue to build hundreds of CAFs when the schools are in a capacity crisis and we already can barely deal with the population we have. Spare me about long commutes. Plenty of people in this area have long commutes and no one has a right to live in the same county in which they work.

Pretty soon the way Arlington is looking there will only be rich and poor, no middle class whatsoever. [/quote]

I do agree with you about the squeezing out of the middle class. And I also agree adding large-scale affordable housing without addressing infrastructure like schools and roads is not ok. But to say ‘I don’t care about “poor people”’ smacks of elitism and I have to counter. I grew up in a mostly white area, but my elementary, middle, and high school was (and still is) about 33% FRL- of which I was in included.  Why? Cause my parents made a few poor financial choices and it took some time to get back on their feet. There’s so many reasons to need AH. Elderly people on fixed incomes who’ve lived here decades, the disabled, working-class families... We live in an artificial bubble here- Arlington is rich, much richer than other places. Middle class here is doing pretty well.

But getting back to the middle class, I would LOVE to see the building of SFHs less than $750K to support the Arlington version middle-class. But that’s not happening. We’re either building McMansions on tiny lots or multi family. There’s no middle ground. In a way, that’s great for me that I own a commodity they just aren’t making in Arlington anymore- a somewhat affordable SFH.

Hmm, this thread got off topic..[/quote]

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