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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh I read it.  
Your "plan" seems to be asking people to give up 5% of ____ if they truly support affordable housing.  Got it.  Good luck with that.[/quote]

I think the other poster is alluding to people like MoCo's NIMBY-in-chief who point to subsidies as the solution to affordable housing without pushing the corresponding tax increases necessary to fund them.[/quote]

The only person who has pushed subsidies without funding them is Andrew Friedson. Friedson’s subsidies were for market rate housing, so maybe that’s why you didn’t include them. If Friedson’s most recent PILOT works, the county will be out a billion in tax revenue. Friedson didn’t fund his Metro subsidy either. That one hasn’t generated much housing but it did produce some apartments that rent for $10k a month. [/quote]

Elrich points to low-income subsidies as the solution to affordable housing, with no serious attempt to push the tax increases necessary to fund them (which would be ridiculous to do at a county level anyway).

But maybe you're dismissing that because Elrich obviously just doesn't want the poors in the county. He has no true desire for such subsidies, but needs to say something on affordable housing.[/quote]

Elrich has pushed tax increases the past two budgets. Friedson voted against both of them (while voting for all the spending, which calls into question his reputation as a budget guru) and the council rejected the last one. Elrich also approved a recordation tax increase, a portion of which goes to one of the affordable housing funds. This is weird revisionism on your part. [/quote]

The tax and budget increases Elrich has sought wouldn't go to significantly expanding low-income housing subsidies. It's not just a matter of increasing taxes, but also what (and how much) that money would go to.[/quote]

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