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[quote=Anonymous]I found this study to be interesting. 
- Top occupations for AH residents: restaurant/food service, construction, office/administrative, taxi/cab driver.
63% of AH residents do not work in Arlington.
- 33% of AH residents work in DC. 17% in Fairfax. Some even work as far away as Loudoun.
-  Max salary allowed in CAFs is $64,500. This means or teachers, nurses, firefighters, police make too much to live in AH.

The study conclusion is that AH is great because a slightly higher percentage of AH residents work in Arlington than the percentage of all Arlington residents, so therefore AH must be helping Arlington businesses and helping with traffic. I personally am appalled that we are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars per unit. The second link is another interesting read to understand how AH proponents think. One takeaway for me is that developers are paying into the AH fund to get density exceptions instead of reserving a few units in those developments for AH. The result is clustering of AH in a few locations and large AH developments instead of spreading throughout the county. AH proponents say this is good because you can offer services at fewer locations. I think it is bad because we are making a few neighborhoods vast majority poor - very poor. It would be better to have AH spread throughout the county and don’t allow developers to pay to keep the poors out of their new developments.

I don’t have a problem with the concept of AH, but I have a problem with the way Arlington is doing it.

https://housing.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2014/02/Occupations-of-Tenants-of-CAFs-Feb-2015.pdf

https://arlingtonva.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2018/10/Final-Full-Booklet-12.18.compressed.pdf[/quote]

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