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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agree PP, but the point is that if enough wealth and retail comes to the area, the owners of the local "slums" like Barcroft Apartments will perhaps see an incentive to sell out. Maybe their taxes will get too high. Or they realize that poorer folks don't want to live in an area where things are too expensive for them an they have too many vacancies. Isn't that what gentrification is all about - and supporters of keeping the Pike poor care about - catering to the lower income residents? Gentrification is what raised rents and values in North Arlington that led to so few MARKS in North Arlington. If landlords can get more money for newer nicer places, they will.[/quote]

The metro gentrified north arlington.
You don’t understand. Delashmutt owns Barcroft, and aside from making the family a fortune as it is today, they’ve sold/transferred their development rights. Add to that the county putting every barrier possible in place for something like townhomes to be built on the site of current garden apartments? It doesn’t make sense to do anything else, aside from continuing as it is now.
I suppose they could renovate and turn them into condos ( like west village). 
But understand the county has worked tirelessly to lock in that housing.
Losing Barcroft Apartments is not acceptable to AH policy in Arlington. 
You aren’t understanding that county is actively preventing the market from gentrification.[/quote]

Maybe the County cares about people who are not as overprivileged as many others in Arlington are.  Maybe they, too, deserve a place to live.  Maybe affordable housing plays a role in that. [/quote]

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