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Make $200K and still get housing aid? How subsidies fuel rising prices

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When Brendi Bluitt found out she qualified for an interest-free public loan of $84,000 to help purchase a $376,000 condo, she was surprised. In an interview with The Washington Post, she said she didn’t think of herself as poor: She had a good job, pulling in more than $80,000 a year working in PR. 

“People maybe would think of someone else who maybe doesn’t look like me or isn’t in the same career field as me,” Bluitt told the newspaper. 

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