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Affordable Housing Shortage Addressed
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"That's just wrong," Silverman added.
Bonnie Cullison, president of the Montgomery County Education Association, which has 11,000 members, said she supports Silverman's idea.
"It's very important for our education professionals to live in the communities in which they work," she said, allowing them to spend more time interacting with students and parents, and less time and energy commuting.
Unlike the county's affordable-housing program, developers would not be allowed to build additional market-rate units in return for offering some at a discount, Silverman said.
They would not lose any market-rate units in order to meet the "workforce housing" requirement, however.
For example, a 100-unit condominium building with 87 market-rate units and 13 affordable units would have to have eight additional workforce units to comply with the requirement, for a total of 108 units, he said.
If approved by the County Council, the Silverman-Floreen bill would help reduce housing prices in neighborhoods surrounding Metro stations, where most of the county's future development is expected.
It would be a central part of the county's plan to add up to 6,340 housing units to the area surrounding the Shady Grove Metro station.
The council is expected to vote on that proposal next month.
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