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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only reason some APS schools have over 50% FARMS rates is because we are massively subsidizing people who don't even have ties to our community.  We are literally bringing them in to live in Arlington, and spending high six figures to do so.

Meanwhile the county doesn't spend a dime keeping actual middle class in Arlington, regardless of how long they have lived here.  Actually, it is worse than that. The county actively undermines middle class welfare in the county by concentrating poverty in what should be solidly blue collar, middle class areas

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This is completely false.  We are not 'bringing in poor people to live in Arlington.'  I get so so sick of this narrative being reported over and over.  Also- one of the affordable housing goals is distribution.  Stop villifying affordable housing- its not the problem.[/quote]

PP, I think your heart is in the right place, but you have no idea what the situation is. And if a better distribution of AH is actually a goal, it's failing miserably.

There's a reason the middle class is getting upset. They're getting squeezed. The comfortably UMC in North Arlington are in denial, or uncomfortable, having some honest discussions.[/quote]

Actually- I know quite a bit about affordable housing in Arlington.  I am not employed by them, nor do I profit in any way from it.  I do have family members and close friends who are like family who live in affordable units in Arlington.  They are not the dregs of society that they are made out to be on these forums.  They lived in Arlington prior to moving into an affordable unit.  They work in Arlington.   One is employed full time in a very low wage job in Arlington.  One is completely disabled and works part time. 
 I have helped people apply for affordable units.   The paperwork documenting your income is onerous.  Neither of them require the huge dollar value of 'wrap around services' that people are claiming on this thread.  I'm not even entirely sure what that means in this context (e.g. how is wrap around services being defined)  
The disabled individual does receive somewhat subsidized transportation through STAR- but the cost of that is vastly less than say the cost of educating one student in public schools.  
Neither family owns a vehicle.  
I think people are letting affordable housing become the 'bogeyman' and assuming that there is a vast conspiracy of wealthy individuals who are massively profiting on the backs of the middle class.  I simply do not believe that to be true.   [/quote]

The problem is putting affordable housing in the same neighborhoods and creating neighborhoods of affordable housing.  If you want to build more, then do it throughout the county regardless of what that costs.  Stop blaming Richmond and get the for-profit developers to build mixed-income housing instead of "transferring" the affordable units to the already "affordable-saturated" neighborhoods via AHIF.  Stop adding more in school zones that already have 50% FRL.
Give your family and like family friends more opportunities to live in other neighborhoods, attend schools that will benefit their children socially and academically, and provide them with access to more resources.[/quote]

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