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You're both right. The problem IMO is that "affordable housing" has become synonymous with "subsidized, below market rate housing". And of course that's extre
by epicureanideal 5y ago
You're both right.
The problem IMO is that "affordable housing" has become synonymous with "subsidized, below market rate housing". And of course that's extremely costly.
We're 1) not allowing ways to make housing cheaper and 2) not allowing building more. Which are the real ways to solve the problem sustainably.
- lazide 5y agoHave you ever checked the paperwork required to actually ‘buy’ (really only rent most of the time) below market rate housing? It’s a nightmare. And even then, of course there is a lottery. It seems like an excuse for paperwork and corruption, not a real attempt to house people and give more business to preferred vendors.
- jollybean 5y agoWe are 'allowing to build more' just not in specific, aspirational areas.
- epicureanideal 5y ago... or within an hour or two drive of those specific areas, which ends up being huge chunks of the state of California (and others), specifically anywhere within reasonable driving distance of the good jobs. If only one or two cities were doing this, it wouldn't be a big deal. But almost all of them are.