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The state can give out rent vouchers and loosen restrictions on building if they want affordable housing.
by zoklet-enjoyer 4y ago
The state can give out rent vouchers and loosen restrictions on building if they want affordable housing.
- BryantD 4y agoYeah, 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 agoThe 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 agoNo 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.