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It is crazy that our tax dollars go to house people in such a tiny little City such as Alexandria.

They need to end the generational poverty.  I know people whine about the illegals but 9 times out of 10 in the City the illegals and legal immigrants are living in cheap, old market rate apartments.  They pull full rent for crappy properties but in the long run that will be better for their kids who will learn to rely on themselves and not govt housing.

I looked at some City docs and they had a poll of residents a public housing community meeting. 26% had lived in public housing for 20+ years!!! That's crazy.[/quote]

20 years is hardly multi generational, and that suggests 3/4 were in public housing for less time than that.

I also do not see the connection between the size of the City (which is over 150,000 and growing) and the presence of public housing.  [b] Alexandria has had a community of poor african americans since the end of slavery[/b] (and some were ex-slaves who had already lived in Alexandria)  The notion that all should be pushed out of the City seems unduly harsh, IMO.

Conversion to vouchers would simply add to the demand for the limited stock of older and cheaper market rate apts, or would push people out of the City.  [b] Given that Alexandria has a lower percentage of poor than DC does, and that percentage is going to drop with the redevelopment of the  Beauregard area (and with new construction elsewhere in the City) I cannot see pushing more people out as a priority for housing policy.[/b]   [/quote]

Yes and Alexandria has nicely kept them in poverty with mind sets like yours.  I mean why is it that you need poor low income people living in the City? Because then you feel like you are living in diversity?  Do you think it's cute or fun to walk by the housing projects and see the laundry lines in Old Town filled with laundry because the owners don't have washer/dryers and can't afford multiple loads at the laundromat because the HCOL in the area sucks up any income they do have? Poverty doesn't exist so people like you can visit it.  That's all that keeping the public housing does.  It's just another form of discrimination and segregation. It's not diversity and it's not helping anyone.  If the City, instead of spending 20 years propping someone up in public housing, gave them the cash to put as a down payment on a property, that would have made many of those individuals far better off today.[/quote]

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