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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me rephrase:

have you considered the possibility that the communities looking for affordable housing would like to inhabit their own neighborhoods and not be strewn about town?[/quote]

Yes. That has been addressed upthread.
Many of the people in Arlington's affordable housing are happy with the status quo and would like to have cheap housing, where they feel most comfortable, keep their children with like children, as the majority in their local school, and not integrate into the county.

There are too many reasons  not to be sympathetic to that viewpoint to list.[/quote]

And by creating these huge enclaves of similarly populated communities as exist on the Pike, we are creating communities of affordable housing for people who work outside Arlington and where other people who work INSIDE Arlington would not want to live. Mix it up some ad give all kinds of people a chance at the low cost housing. [/quote]

Over 60% of people living in Arlington's AH - work outside of the county. [/quote]

Right.  What is the point of that?  Wouldn't it be better for the affordable housing we build to be in mixed housing buildings where teachers and police officers and other people who help our communities wouldn't be embarrassed or uncomfortable to live?  Rather than further turning the Pike into a kind of minority ghetto and further increasing the % of FARMs kids in the South instead of spreading things around to Northern schools that have the resources to handle more FARMs kids?

What exactly ARE the arguments in favor of continuing to build affordable housing on the Pike? [/quote]

Your original supposition is off. Our fire fighters, teachers, and police largely don't qualify for AH in Arlington. They make too much money. The workforce in the AH of Arlington is largely comprised of cab drivers and day labors. The county has studies to support this.
And more than half of those people are working elsewhere. 
So, we are paying for the housing of the workforce of other jurisdictions.

Which isn't even my biggest complaint- I'm just tired of hearing candidates like Katie Cristol extol the virtues of our current housing policy, and touting how important it is for our local, low wage workers.... Who aren't actually living there...

It would be better if we could stop pretending that AH is for the middle class. It is not. 
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