The 475-unit complex would abut both a private Catholic school and a 72-year-old church building, both named Saint Rita.
In Arlandria, however, it’s the church that seems to be standing in the way of affordable housing — even though Saint Rita is a major community institution for Arlandria’s working-class Latino immigrants, many of whom attend its twice-weekly Spanish mass.
With Amazon’s new headquarters just a few miles away, change is already coming to Arlandria. The neighborhood is about a mile from the new Potomac Yard Metro station, which is being built to accommodate the coming influx of new tech workers in the area officials have dubbed “National Landing.” About 95 percent of neighborhood residents earn less than 40 percent of the area median income, according to
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