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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone explain to me like I am 5 how there is a housing crisis in Alexandria when the last report on homelessness said there were 152 people in the City experiencing homelessness in 2023 - down from 198 in 2019?

I will concede the large influx of undocumented immigrants to our sanctuary city may need housing, but I truly doubt they will be renting the $3.5k a month apartment in the six-plex built on Loyola avenue with no parking spot for their unmarked work van.  And why would a young couple choose to live in that same six-plex when they can move into The Porter and get happy hours in the lobby?  So maybe that couple would move into a $1million duplex built on that same lot, so the removal of SFH zoning has now increased housing capacity by 1 for that lot. And not anything affordable.  And not a speck of grass remaining.

My favorite talking point of the council is removal of SFH zoning is desegregation - not even hiding behind the implication that POC cannot afford SFHs so something lesser needs created. What a pessimistic view. [/quote]

Mostly ALL of the new housing buildings in the west end with affordable housing are 70% or more vacant. More hosing is not needed in the city this is a ploy to get more federal funding so they can scream poverty. "Look at all the people riding our free DASH bus" we need more funding. (Although these are just students using the dash instead of the school busses.) WHY should tax payers have to pay for school busses AND the dash for people to ride for "free." For real?! This city has lost their minds![/quote]

Might as well rename it West Alexandria because the city doesn't care about that side and usually doesn't include it when discussing "Alexandria"[/quote]

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