Anonymous
11/30/2019 14:00
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Anonymous
11/30/2019 09:24
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Heh, Greater Greater Washington is not news. It really isn't a valid source for anything. It is a pro-development blog, basically a YIMBY blog by upper middle class hipsters who want to make a buck on house flipping while posing as social justice warriors.
Exactly!
+1 million
Anonymous
11/29/2019 23:47
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Smaller and cheaper housing options more people in MoCo when we already have a huge traffic problem. Marc is right.
Anonymous
11/24/2019 09:34
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Anonymous wrote:
1. Elrich is not a progressive. He is a person who wants to do what "the people" want, and if "the people" don't want more housing or bike lanes or whatever - which they often don't, because "the people" incline to be NIMBYs - then he doesn't either.
Elrich will do what the unions want. They contributed over $1mln to his campaign (via PACs).
"The people" want MoCo to get out of the alcohol monopoly business for example. The unions don't want to lose those 300 union jobs (even though most proposals would allow the retail stores to stay, just they'd be competing with private stores). That's why we still have the monopoly -- it's what his benefactors want.
Anonymous
11/24/2019 09:12
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:This is linked inside the article you linked. I basically agree with him. It’s better to have higher income people live in MoCo than low income. If they have nowhere to live they will rent elsewhere in the area.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/elrich-opposes-affordable-housing-targets-in-councils-economic-development-plan/
“If you read the report … their assumption was, that of the next 40,000 households, 10,000 would not be able to afford more than $800 a month rent,” Elrich said at the press conference. “That’s 10,000 households earning less than $30,000, or around $30,000. The next 10,000 households could not afford more than $1,300 a month rent, which means a $52,000 or $50,000 income. …That’s not the kind of job profile that we’re trying to bring to Montgomery County.”
This is empirically incorrect. If they have nowhere to live in a legal rental, they will live in an illegal rental. Is that what you prefer?
No, PG county or PWC.
Anonymous
11/24/2019 08:57
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Anonymous wrote:I'm a bit surprised. I am not an Elrich fan, but I thought he was a progressive who wanted more affordable housing in MoCo.
https://ggwash.org/view/74809/elrich-and-navarro-spar-over-housing-and-economic-development-in-montgomery-county
Montgomery County should not plan build more housing that would be affordable for working-class and middle-income families because he does not believe data showing that the county will need them, County Executive Marc Elrich said at a joint press conference on Tuesday, November 12....Elrich argued against proposed affordable housing targets.
I'm not sure now what he wants.
1. Elrich is not a progressive. He is a person who wants to do what "the people" want, and if "the people" don't want more housing or bike lanes or whatever - which they often don't, because "the people" incline to be NIMBYs - then he doesn't either.
2. GGW and Elrich have a long history of mutual dislike.
3. It isn't clear what Elrich wants.
Anonymous
11/24/2019 08:55
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Anonymous wrote:This is linked inside the article you linked. I basically agree with him. It’s better to have higher income people live in MoCo than low income. If they have nowhere to live they will rent elsewhere in the area.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/elrich-opposes-affordable-housing-targets-in-councils-economic-development-plan/
“If you read the report … their assumption was, that of the next 40,000 households, 10,000 would not be able to afford more than $800 a month rent,” Elrich said at the press conference. “That’s 10,000 households earning less than $30,000, or around $30,000. The next 10,000 households could not afford more than $1,300 a month rent, which means a $52,000 or $50,000 income. …That’s not the kind of job profile that we’re trying to bring to Montgomery County.”
This is empirically incorrect. If they have nowhere to live in a legal rental, they will live in an illegal rental. Is that what you prefer?
Anonymous
11/23/2019 23:20
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Anonymous wrote:Heh, Greater Greater Washington is not news. It really isn't a valid source for anything. It is a pro-development blog, basically a YIMBY blog by upper middle class hipsters who want to make a buck on house flipping while posing as social justice warriors.
Exactly!
Anonymous
11/23/2019 20:48
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Heh, Greater Greater Washington is not news. It really isn't a valid source for anything. It is a pro-development blog, basically a YIMBY blog by upper middle class hipsters who want to make a buck on house flipping while posing as social justice warriors.
Anonymous
11/23/2019 11:49
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
While the "wealthy" have more mobility in the work force, that doesn't mean you ignore the people who are trapped by their employment prospects. As home prices rise, rents are going to increase as well. The low income workers, who are forced to rent, will be screwed. Can't afford to leave and can't afford to stay.
I am sure Elrich is familiar with the defects of Tiebout's model. Being educated and all. Then again, maybe not.
I am sure Elrich is familiar with the defects of Tiebout's model. Being educated and all. Then again, maybe not.
Anonymous
11/23/2019 09:46
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Anonymous wrote:This is linked inside the article you linked. I basically agree with him. It’s better to have higher income people live in MoCo than low income. If they have nowhere to live they will rent elsewhere in the area.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/elrich-opposes-affordable-housing-targets-in-councils-economic-development-plan/
“If you read the report … their assumption was, that of the next 40,000 households, 10,000 would not be able to afford more than $800 a month rent,” Elrich said at the press conference. “That’s 10,000 households earning less than $30,000, or around $30,000. The next 10,000 households could not afford more than $1,300 a month rent, which means a $52,000 or $50,000 income. …That’s not the kind of job profile that we’re trying to bring to Montgomery County.”
OP here.. I tend to agree, but I just thought Elrich was super progressive, so this article came as a surprise to me.
But then what is he doing to bring in higher paying jobs? I'm not seeing it. Lower the taxes; invest infrastructure, then businesses may come in. I read an interview with a business developer who has business ventures in MoCo and NoVa, and he thinks MoCo's issue is the infrastructure.
Anonymous
11/23/2019 09:41
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
Anonymous wrote:He’s not a stupid guy. But he gets utterly fixated on the minutiae of issues, and can’t see the forest for the trees. He really can’t.
He’s blowing up good policy left and right. He’s a real problem in government right now. I don’t think he means to. He just cannot get past his obsessions with things like the compound composition of pot hole filler or creating micro-homes out of shipping containers. That’s not where a County Executive’s thought processes should be.
PP again, but we are “turning the curve” so all is just dandy.
Anonymous
11/23/2019 09:40
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
He’s not a stupid guy. But he gets utterly fixated on the minutiae of issues, and can’t see the forest for the trees. He really can’t.
He’s blowing up good policy left and right. He’s a real problem in government right now. I don’t think he means to. He just cannot get past his obsessions with things like the compound composition of pot hole filler or creating micro-homes out of shipping containers. That’s not where a County Executive’s thought processes should be.
He’s blowing up good policy left and right. He’s a real problem in government right now. I don’t think he means to. He just cannot get past his obsessions with things like the compound composition of pot hole filler or creating micro-homes out of shipping containers. That’s not where a County Executive’s thought processes should be.
Anonymous
11/23/2019 07:54
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
This is linked inside the article you linked. I basically agree with him. It’s better to have higher income people live in MoCo than low income. If they have nowhere to live they will rent elsewhere in the area.
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/elrich-opposes-affordable-housing-targets-in-councils-economic-development-plan/
“If you read the report … their assumption was, that of the next 40,000 households, 10,000 would not be able to afford more than $800 a month rent,” Elrich said at the press conference. “That’s 10,000 households earning less than $30,000, or around $30,000. The next 10,000 households could not afford more than $1,300 a month rent, which means a $52,000 or $50,000 income. …That’s not the kind of job profile that we’re trying to bring to Montgomery County.”
https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/politics/elrich-opposes-affordable-housing-targets-in-councils-economic-development-plan/
“If you read the report … their assumption was, that of the next 40,000 households, 10,000 would not be able to afford more than $800 a month rent,” Elrich said at the press conference. “That’s 10,000 households earning less than $30,000, or around $30,000. The next 10,000 households could not afford more than $1,300 a month rent, which means a $52,000 or $50,000 income. …That’s not the kind of job profile that we’re trying to bring to Montgomery County.”
Anonymous
11/22/2019 11:05
Subject: MOCO -- Elrich doesn't want more affordable housing?
I'm a bit surprised. I am not an Elrich fan, but I thought he was a progressive who wanted more affordable housing in MoCo.
https://ggwash.org/view/74809/elrich-and-navarro-spar-over-housing-and-economic-development-in-montgomery-county
I'm not sure now what he wants.
https://ggwash.org/view/74809/elrich-and-navarro-spar-over-housing-and-economic-development-in-montgomery-county
Montgomery County should not plan build more housing that would be affordable for working-class and middle-income families because he does not believe data showing that the county will need them, County Executive Marc Elrich said at a joint press conference on Tuesday, November 12....Elrich argued against proposed affordable housing targets.
I'm not sure now what he wants.