I’ll be happy either way as long as they aren’t affordable housing.

It’s great to finally see some real progress over there.

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You guys are confusing affordable housing with public housing. Affordable housing is for people with jobs and ok credit, people just out of college or teachers, firsttime buyers, etc.

I’m ok with affordable, but I think this area needs more median income owners. You have to diversify to attract businesses and you need people with disposible income.

Not bragging, but I bought my first home through an affordable housing program when I made 30,000 per year (ten years ago). Now I’m in the 100,000+ income bracket and remeber what it was like when I wanted to buy my first place and felt trapped into not purchasing until I learned about what was then called the “challenge fund”.

Groan. Some of these condos will be SOLD at affordable prices. So maybe this means a 1BR is $200,000 instead of $300,000. The person still has to be able to qualify for a mortgage. This means, for example, maybe a couple that teaches school can afford to buy something, despite the fact that their combined income is “only” $70,000 per year. This is not public housing folks!!!!! Maybe you (Nate, Anonymous 2:26pm) should actually go to some of these meetings to find out what affordable housing means, before ranting online.

BTW, when I bought my first condo I qualified for the DC Home Purchase Assistance Program (HPAP). I had a master’s degree and I was working for an nonprofit and was making under $40K. I was awarded an interest free loan to buy my first home. Best yet, I haven’t shot anyone yet!!

I talk to a lot of my section 8 tenants. Evidently there are a lot of programs for Section 8 people to buy affordable housing using their vouchers. That is what I am against. I am all for teacher and other workforce housing.

The better way to look at it is that I hope there are no apartments set aside for low income people. But even that is not much of a concern considering that most of the units will not be suitable for a family. That is the biggest deterrent to be keeping bad elements out. 1 & 2 BR apartments don’t attract many of the problem tenants with bigger families.

While I know it’s surely meant to be crooked, that one post (5th from the left on the bottom floor), would make me think twice before jumping up and down on the bed with Lil’ Gal on the second floor of that place. It just seems a little too much like a Jenga pile just before your cousin Festus pulls out the wrong block.

Just putting it out there, but if a nathanboggs blog (maybe nathanbloggs???) popped up, I’d definitely read that site every day.

well, I know of no programs to give housing away. All are different levels of workforce housing such as apts at Georgia and Taylor. Or condos where a certain % of units offered at below market rates. And given something like 400 houses sold in zip 20011 last year at a median price of $425K, I think no need to worried that the neighborhood might become poorer. that’s crazy. I am all for the workforce housing, it’s great. I’m actually trying to help a friend who works for a nonprofit qualify to buy one.

Lay off Nate people, he’s entitled to his opinion and it sounds as though he’s drawing from his own experience with Section 8 tenants. Have any of you rented to/lived in Section 8 housing? You’ll have your own point of view too.