It took a progressive Virginia suburb 8 years to let developers build apartments instead of single-family houses. It shows how hard it is to build middle-class housing in the US.

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A demonstrator holds up a sign that says "Won't you be my neighbor?", a quote from the children's show Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, during the Arlington County board meeting in Arlington, Virginia, on July 16, 2022.

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My Gen Z kids have moved back in with me and pay rent. I wasn't expecting to be a parent landlord, but there are perks I never imagined.

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The Townsend-Anderson family
The parents didn't charge their kids rent for the first six months they lived at home.

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I felt pressured to buy a nearly $1 million house at age 27 — and I deeply regret it

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A neighborhood of houses in Chantilly, Virginia
Elsa and her husband bought a four-bedroom house in Chantilly, Virginia.

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