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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know this will be viewed as black heresy by the $300,000-a-year-but-totally-middle-class citizens of DCUM, but I would personally prefer the city arrange as many backroom crony deals as they need to to build shelters that get children out of the hell holes they've living in right now instead of more developments of luxury condo buildings for 20-something Hill staffers and lobbyists. I would vote for whatever candidate forces those developers to allocate 25% of those new buildings towards actual affordable housing.[/quote]

Affordable is different than public housing or low income housing. Which do you support?[/quote]

Affordable housing, public housing and low income housing are all subsidized in some form or another.  Mechanisms vary but that's about it...[/quote]

Different levels. Are you saying the govt should pay to have low income people living in million dollar homes? Sounds like socialism or income redistribution to me. I support affordable housing but not income redistribution. [/quote]

I don't think anyone here said anything about low income people living in million dollar homes but it seems that's practically what Bowser is doing - I don't get why low income people should be living in a more expensive neighborhood than me, in an apartment where the rent alone will be a lot more than my mortgage payment.  Bowser's plan has rents (JUST rents, not even including meals or anything else) costing taxpayers upwards of $3,300 a month (one site involves a $2 million dollar a year lease to house 50 families, per WaPo).  For that kind of money we could be basically buying every homeless family in DC General a $750,000 home.    [/quote]

2m annual lease / 50 units or families/12 mos = 3,333 per month.  2 bed on connecticut ave-building has 4 units open and max is 2415/month.  http://www.equityapartments.com/washington-dc/washington-dc-apartments/van-ness/connecticut-heights-apartments.aspx

Just from that management company here's some more at less than 3k/month:
http://www.equityapartments.com/washington-dc/washington-dc-apartments/cleveland-park/2501-porter-apartments.aspx

So what is going on?[/quote]

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