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As an example when I was active in housing in Chicago one of the organizations that was with us on the left was a developer of affordable housing: https://www.b
by jordanb 1y ago
As an example when I was active in housing in Chicago one of the organizations that was with us on the left was a developer of affordable housing: https://www.bickerdike.org/ https://www.bickerdike.org/
Several of the activist actually worked for this developer.
Real leftist housing rights supporters are not against developers. They are against for-profit, private equity, land banking speculators, and yeah nimby homeowners. In general we hated the Oak Park type nimby liberal more than we hated the right to be honest.
- pj_mukh 1y ago“leftist housing rights supporters are not against developers.” They certainly are in my neighborhood. https://www.ourneighborhoodvoices.com/48-hills-cost-of-growth/ https://www.ourneighborhoodvoices.com/48-hills-cost-of-growt... The “private developer risk” the article derides is an enforceable approval timeline that lets private developers have bounded risk. Apparently that’s a bridge too far.
- Hammershaft 1y agoIn a market system, Creating a system that is "against for profit" housing developers very predictively restricts housing supply & drives up the cost of living for everyone.