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They're removing subsidized houses to build market-rate ones? How does that work? Is it the same owner demolishing their own house and replacing it - surely a v
by averagewall 9y ago
They're removing subsidized houses to build market-rate ones? How does that work? Is it the same owner demolishing their own house and replacing it - surely a violation of the conditions they had to agree to to get the subsidy. Why would the government pay a subsidy, then allow the very thing the subsidy was supposed to prevent? Does that money get refunded to the government - maybe allowing them to spend it on another subsidized house somewhere else?
- irq11 9y agoNot “subsidized”...affordable. A landlord has 3 older units that rent for $x. She wishes to redevelop the property to create 6 new units that rent for $3x. Net result is that 3 units have been created, but 3 people have been displaced. Likely permanently. This is the heart of the redevelopment debate in SF.
- Kalium 9y agoSubsidized is an accurate description of the financial arrangement surrounding the unit in a way that "affordable" is not. Why not use it? I know, I know. Politics, right?
- averagewall 9y ago$x is a rent controlled price? By rebuilding, she loses the requirement to keep the rent low? You're right, that's not a subsidy since it's the landlord that pays for it.
- Mz 9y agoIn most cases, when you improve a property, you then charge more because it is improved. It isn't unreasonable on an individual basis, but the end result is that affordable units disappear and do not get replaced. Rinse and repeat and pretty soon there simply aren't any affordable units.
- empath75 9y agoYeah but people are moving out of less desirable and housing to move there, opening up new housing down market.