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[quote=Anonymous]I hear you, but I don't like the consequences of what you're saying, which is to keep all further low income people out of Arlington altogether, even though those percentages have been shrinking already over the last decade.  Shouldn't this relatively rich area be able to absorb some of the state's poor people without that much detriment to ourselves?  Isn't that part of our job, really?  The North is fully equipped to do this.

I'm not sure why you think that more middle class people will move here if we stop building AH altogether.  Developers won't stop buying teardowns and replacing them with $2 million homes.  They're not going to buy a teardown and put in a $600K house that a teacher might be able to afford.  We'll just keep getting more rich people.  I mean, I'm sure that's what some people want, but it didn't seem to be what you were after, and yet I don't think you realize your solution wouldn't seem to solve the problem.

At least with mixed housing there seems more of a chance, to me, that middle class people who work in Arlington might be able to use some of it.  But I don't really want to live in an Arlington where the main housing being built is new $2M SFHs.[/quote]

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