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[quote=Anonymous][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]

You are responding to different posters I think.
I'm not opposed to mixed use housing spread through out the county. In fact I think that is exactly what we need to be doing.
The children raised in those environments will flourish as opposed to languish.
I am absolutely against concentrated 100 commited subsidized housing, especially more along the Pike. I also don't believe in AH at any cost. So, if we can't muster the political will to make it happen the right/most effective way- I'm not willing to sacrifice my kids education and property value.

I know that sounds terrible, harsh, and selfish... I know that, by if I'm going to be footing the bill, I don't want these policy to directly come back and smack me in the face/wallet. 
I don't want to only see 2m+ McMansions everywhere either. I want to live among all kinds of people.
Right now the county is picking winners and losers. I feel the meddling is going to end up with more losers, and that includes middle class homeowners.
If they don't slow down what is happening on the Pike it will be a 50 year recovery. I understand that we are losing large numbers of disadvantaged people right now, but the county engineering is going to have lasting ramifications that will be reverberate in countless unforeseen ways, many of them not good. And most of them expensive.

As to middle class displacement - there is a theory that AH takes away from the amount and adds to the expensive of market rate housing. The burden is shifted to market rate units- the market demands more for them- middle class gets pushed further out...
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