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From YouTube: NewsMakers: Yes! In Our Backyards
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At the Alliance for Housing Solutions seminar, Yes! In Our Backyards, organizers and participants talked about the state of affordable housing in Arlington VA now and the outlook for the future.
A
A
B
It
depends
about
how
we
feel
about
the
kind
of
community
we
want
to
be.
Arlington
has
always
defined
itself
as
a
diverse
and
progressive
community
and
because
of
high
real
estate
values
in
this
area
and
generally
high
median
income
values.
It's
very
difficult
for
people,
middle
management,
certainly
firemen
teachers,
retail
workers,
hotel
workers,
it's
very
difficult
to
find
affordable
housing
in
arlington.
B
C
D
The
recession
has
slowed
down
the
rate
of
loss,
but
every
year
we
lose
affordable
housing
which
is
owned
in
the
private
sector,
and
it's
partly
replaced
by
often
non-profit
organizations
with
the
help
of
the
county,
with
the
help
of
the
federal
housing
tax
credit
program
and
so
forth,
which
the
state
administers
to
help
slow.
The
loss.
F
Where
does
someone
who
needs
workforce
housing
live?
It
can
be
way
out
past
manassas
down
in
fredericksburg.
No,
it
has
to
be
here,
and
that
brings
us
right
back
to
the
point
we
have
some
gems
in
this
county.
Appa
has
them.
We
have
them,
they
are
near
the
metro
stations,
and
that
is
where
we
have
to
go
back
and
look
at
creativities
density,
not
dollars
and
do
extraordinary
things
as
the
county
has
been
doing,
to
make
affordable
housing
work
in
arlington
we're
in.
G
C
Been
quite
welcomed
by
the
way
by
the
barcroft
civic
association
and
one
of
the
things
they
said
to
us
is
we're
glad
you're
here,
and
I
thought
that
was
a
great
statement
for
neighbors.
We
talk
in
some
communities
about
how
affordable
housing
is
not
welcomed
in
arlington
when
we
come
in,
and
particularly
when
we
work
with
some
of
these
older
properties
and
bring
them
up
to
current
standards,
and
I
think
this
is
true
for
hc,
for
appa
for
colonial
village.