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> Affordable housing is and will always be a horrible idea. This is like saying food banks are a horrible idea, and we should just focus on job growth so every
by seoaeu 5y ago
> Affordable housing is and will always be a horrible idea.
This is like saying food banks are a horrible idea, and we should just focus on job growth so everyone can afford to buy their own food. It comes across as really tone deaf to ignore that some people need help now and that even though it isn’t a complete solution, feeding one person today or getting one person off the street into newly constructed affordable housing makes a real difference to them.
- digisign 5y ago"Affordable housing" is one of the most expensive, bureaucratic forms of construction, not a way to build faster.
- seoaeu 5y agoFaster than what? It takes a handful of years for a non-profit or government housing agency to build new affordable housing. At the current pace of market rate construction, it’ll take many many decades before newly built “luxury” housing filters down enough for low income households to afford it. Even if there was a massive YIMBY housing boom we’re still probably looking at 10-20 years before market rents fall enough to be affordable to low income folks
- digisign 5y agoIgnoring the problem is not a solution, as we've seen. Nor are bureaucratic bandaids over a mortal wound. Yes, we need to increase the rate of construction 10x and things will get better after a decade or so.