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Plenty of YIMBYs are fine with "do both!": more market rate housing supply, and more subsidized housing for those who can't afford the former. The more of the
by davidw 9y ago
Plenty of YIMBYs are fine with "do both!": more market rate housing supply, and more subsidized housing for those who can't afford the former. The more of the former you produce, the more you can concentrate the latter on the truly needy, and not people like teachers, firefighters and so on who have good jobs that are important to society.
- bigdubs 9y agohttps://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/03/01/guest-opinion-market-rate-housing-vs-affordable.html https://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/news/2018/03/01/gue... That is explicitly what's being advocated by Scott Wiener.
- jadedhacker 9y agoWhile this idea seems appealing, I imagine the market rate housing will crowd out the public housing. I also think that it's fine to give public housing to those that can afford it if we take care of the needy people too. It would mean more money in the pockets of teachers, firefighters, etc.