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The demographics have changed in Montgomery County, leading to an influx of poorer residents and a need for more affordable housing, according to a local housing advocate.
If Montgomery County stopped building today, by 2015 the county would have 35,000 fewer affordable housing units than it needs, said Barbara Goldberg Goldman, co-chairwoman of the Affordable Housing Conference of Montgomery County.
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In 2009, more than 32,000 families faced foreclosure in Maryland, according to data presented Feb. 24 by Carol Gilbert, assistant secretary of neighborhood revitalization for the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development.
Montgomery County was fifth in the state in foreclosure filings in 2009 with 6,614, or 15.3 percent of the county’s total housing units, data show.
Prince George’s County was first in foreclosure filings with 13,412, or 31 percent of all housing units in the county.
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