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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't fight human nature

People pay hundreds of thousands dollars more to be in "better" schools

Some people pay private school tuition and some pay higher real estate costs

You could try and tinker with school boundaries zoning and where you put different types of housing.  You could also spend money to revitalize places in the Eastern MoCo to make the more attractive of course if you do it too much prices go up and you are back to square one with a Bethesda in Silver Spring.  Don't laugh it's only a matter of time people are already getting priced out

Anyway, fighting human nature is a lost cause.  The best you can do is have smaller class sizes in lower performing schools with more resources too.  Also I would hold back kids who can't read until they can.  [/quote]

This is beyond that.

This is fighting LAND PRICES. You know, the whole reason many people legally immigrated away from countries with zero land rights or too costly of land. Basic econ. Basic urban planning.  Basic human nature.

We've all seen the studies about the Projects in NY's five boroughs - crime, drugs, killings, infestation.

You can't just raze a whole semi-dense suburban neighborhood in a Top 20 metro area in the name of social justice and cheap housing for the poors. You'll need $$billions to do so. You're decades too late, who knew that the DC area economy would be so vibrant and diverse in the 1990s?. Can't do that in any metro area in the world. [/quote]

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