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[quote=Anonymous]I pay a mortgage too.

I would love it if every single house around me is torn down and replaced by a 800k NDI home - so that the income demographics of the neighborhood would go up but I would still have a nicer house than everyone else.  Gotta stay superior somehow.

Do you know why new developments have below market units?  It's so they can get their zoning application passed and overbuild for the site.

Do you know how you can snag yourself a below market unit?  You have to fill out paperwork, continue to verify information incl income (which may be hard for those in the cash economy), wait around, and then try to win the lottery to get to select the unit with very little lead time.  [it's not an actual lottery but it will feel like it]

Did you know that Fairfax has less than 2,000 below market units?

I used to rent in a development that had below market units.  I just looked - you have to have a minimum income of 34k to be eligible to apply to wait around for a 1BR in that development to pop up.

Sure, raze the "tenement" buildings and then have people wait around for months/years until they can get below market units.. oh, the below market unit is 20 miles from where you used to live and so your kids have to go to a different school?  What, you don't want it?  Ok, we're taking you off the list then.

If you care about horrific slumlords, then lobby for stronger Virginia Residential Landlord and Tenant Act provisions - it applies to landlords with 4+ rental units.  Protections are decent, but could be better.

Thinking that 'below market units' will protect those who live in what you call tenement housing now is darn naive.  And they are not tenements - they're called garden apartments and most around here were built for returning GIs and their families.   [/quote]

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