![]() ![]() ![]() But it was inspiring to talk to Mike and hear what LMAH has accomplished over the last 30 years. What works there would not necessarily work here. Of course, Lower Merion is about 10 times as big as Swarthmore, and it has a lot more land. Lower Merion has a few decades of experience strategizing about how to maintain an economically diverse population-something that our borough is just starting to wrestle with now. But it’s only recently that housing prices in Swarthmore have started to rise to comparable heights. Lower Merion is an affluent suburban Philadelphia township with a high-performing public school system often compared to Swarthmore’s. Mike and his colleagues are still trying to keep the community affordable to a wide variety of people. (He’s also the president of his local fire company, Station 28.) He, as much as anybody, is responsible for the township continuing the work it started 30 years ago. Mike is the chair of Lower Merion’s housing trust, Lower Merion Affordable Housing (LMAH). “They wanted to make sure the township had an economically diverse population,” Mike Leibowitz told me recently. When residents in Lower Merion were being priced out of their community in the early 1990s, several of the town commissioners took steps to keep their community affordable. ![]()
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