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This lawsuit is Institute for Justice trying to stop state funded affordable housing. They found this women to be an example plaintiff. Don't get lost in her in

This lawsuit is Institute for Justice trying to stop state funded affordable housing. They found this women to be an example plaintiff. Don't get lost in her individual situation, as the lawsuit is about so much more.

nickff 4y ago
Why have you imputed this motive? IFJ seems to be quite anti-licensure and anti-permitting (according to other materials), and their website says nothing about preventing state-funded affordable housing. https://ij.org/press-release/lawsuit-challenges-seattles-mandatory-housing-affordability-law-a-law-that-makes-building-housing-unaffordable/ https://ij.org/press-release/lawsuit-challenges-seattles-man...
zoklet-enjoyer 4y ago
The state can give out rent vouchers and loosen restrictions on building if they want affordable housing.
- BryantD 4y ago
  Yeah, that’s what Inslee wanted to do last year — open up denser housing and remove city-level zoning laws preventing denser builds, at least within a short distance of mass transit. Couldn’t even get that done thanks to local pushback. It’s a shame IFJ didn’t show up for that fight.
- mikeryan 4y ago
  The state can give out rent vouchers and loosen restrictions on building if they want affordable housing This is literally what the state is doing. They're loosening restrictions if you build affordable housing. They're not loosening restrictions across the board as the default would be to just build housing without any regard to affordability.
  - fjh 4y ago
    > the default would be to just build housing without any regard to affordability. Luckily, that would still lead to affordable housing, because "just build housing" is what actually makes housing affordable.
    - mikeryan 4y ago
      No it’s not. It’s specious to think that just adding supply to the desirable metro areas like San Francisco, New York or Seattle would be enough to make housing affordable to teachers and lower paying jobs. You’d just get more unaffordable housing or have to somehow flood the market with so much inventory that they would no longer be a place where people want to live.
cameldrv 4y ago
I don't think that the state is funding the affordable housing here. The state is forcing anyone who wants to build more dense units to fund affordable housing.

nickff 4y ago

Why have you imputed this motive? IFJ seems to be quite anti-licensure and anti-permitting (according to other materials), and their website says nothing about preventing state-funded affordable housing. https://ij.org/press-release/lawsuit-challenges-seattles-mandatory-housing-affordability-law-a-law-that-makes-building-housing-unaffordable/ https://ij.org/press-release/lawsuit-challenges-seattles-man...

zoklet-enjoyer 4y ago

The state can give out rent vouchers and loosen restrictions on building if they want affordable housing.

BryantD 4y ago
Yeah, that’s what Inslee wanted to do last year — open up denser housing and remove city-level zoning laws preventing denser builds, at least within a short distance of mass transit. Couldn’t even get that done thanks to local pushback. It’s a shame IFJ didn’t show up for that fight.
mikeryan 4y ago
The state can give out rent vouchers and loosen restrictions on building if they want affordable housing This is literally what the state is doing. They're loosening restrictions if you build affordable housing. They're not loosening restrictions across the board as the default would be to just build housing without any regard to affordability.
- fjh 4y ago
  > the default would be to just build housing without any regard to affordability. Luckily, that would still lead to affordable housing, because "just build housing" is what actually makes housing affordable.
  - mikeryan 4y ago
    No it’s not. It’s specious to think that just adding supply to the desirable metro areas like San Francisco, New York or Seattle would be enough to make housing affordable to teachers and lower paying jobs. You’d just get more unaffordable housing or have to somehow flood the market with so much inventory that they would no longer be a place where people want to live.

cameldrv 4y ago

I don't think that the state is funding the affordable housing here. The state is forcing anyone who wants to build more dense units to fund affordable housing.