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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FTR not all housing being discussed by the County as "affordable" is "subsidized."   Making developers allocated a certain number of units as "below market" is not the same thing as subsidizing.

And I'm the PP who used the example of nurses and teachers as I have worked as both.  I don't live in affordable housing partly bc I'm part of a dual income household and also because nursing has been an upwardly mobile field for me.  But the example could extend to nursing aides, EMTs, etc etc.  That said it does not bother me in the slightest that much of the AH in Arlington goes to people working in other professions.  I actually live very close to a complex of AH and know that the families who live there are working hard and trying to secure a future for their kids.  This is the American Dream.

This idea that everyone can just pick up and move is ludicrous to me.  Look at all of the research showing that low income families spend 70% of their income on rent.  A single missed paycheck equals a massive crisis.  If you've never lived like this or known anyone who does then you are fortunate.   I am fortunate and I am happy to share what I have with others who are less so.  [/quote]

Their pay checks would probably go much further in Woodbridge.[/quote]

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