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I don't like how this treats "affordable housing" as though affordability were a built-in property of construction. The way to make housing affordable is to bui
by jimrandomh 11y ago
I don't like how this treats "affordable housing" as though affordability were a built-in property of construction. The way to make housing affordable is to build lots of units, so that you don't have too many people bidding on too few apartments. If you don't do that, then everything is going to be expensive no matter how shitty you make it (see San Francisco). If you do do that, then you can make the units nice and they'll still end up being cheap.
- kiba 11y agoYou mean, build houses where people want to live and where the jobs are? I am pretty sure you only have to build enough houses for three hundred million people.
- sokoloff 11y agoCross that with zoning and practical building concerns, and you find that affordable is partially a built-in property of construction. If the lot will only support X thousand square feet of heated living space, you can build 1 X kft^2, 2 X/2, 3 X/3, or 4 X/4 units. It seems overwhelmingly likely that the last will be more affordable than the first.