Alexandria's Beauregard area faces housing, development decisions - Washington Post (blog)

Alexandria's Beauregard area faces housing, development decisions Washington Post (blog) Hector Pineda and his wife, Veronica, pay $1590 in rent for a two-bedroom apartment near Alexandria's Beauregard Street. Their 10-year-old son is happy and doing well in the local school, and their 4-year-old son has a lot of playmates. and more »

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Letter: A Solution for Catastrophe - Virginia Connection Newspapers

Letter: A Solution for Catastrophe Virginia Connection Newspapers It is two to three years out before even one unit of dedicated affordable housing will be available. In the last three years rent increases have priced almost 1700 apartments out of the “affordable” housing category. In the last three years rents have ... and more »

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If You Want Housing To Be Affordable, You Need To Build Houses - Slate Magazine (blog)

If You Want Housing To Be Affordable, You Need To Build Houses Slate Magazine (blog) But if what you want is for housing to be widely available in your city/country/metro area/state/region/whatever then you ultimately have to look at how many houses do you have. If Alexandria contained only 1000 homes but they were all rent controlled, ...

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Destination Downtowns and Girls - RhinoTimes.com Greensboro

Destination Downtowns and Girls RhinoTimes.com Greensboro Destination Downtowns also exist – or used to: Santa Monica's Third Street Promenade, Georgetown in DC, Alexandria's Old Town. But the ones that are still worth going to – that are still a destination – are the ones that did not allow the high-rent ...

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