Affordable housing program ‘kind of sucks,’ Elrich says

The Moderately Priced Dwelling Units (MPDU) program in Montgomery County “actually kind of sucks” and there will be legislation introduced to expand it, County Executive Marc Elrich (D) said Monday morning at a District 18 Breakfast Club meeting where he also discussed safety and immigration enforcement.

“No developer is going to build affordability in and of their own accord,” Elrich told a group of about 50 people who attended the meeting Monday morning at Parkway Deli in Silver Spring. “The only way you get to do that … is leverage.”

The MPDU program offers affordably price homes to those who have a “moderate level of household income,” according to the MPDU website…

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