First American City to Tame Inflation Owes Its Success to Affordable Housing
First American City to Tame Inflation Owes Its Success to Affordable Housing
Minneapolis, MN for those who don’t want to open.
It even looks like they got rid of the zoning laws that forced everything to be a bungalow! This picture could easily be mistaken for some place in Europe now
This is the important bit:
has invested $320 million for rental assistance and subsidies.
I'm not sure they could do that in Seattle since developers only make luxury homes and they can pay off the city for the requirement to build low income housing. We're getting dangerously close to San Francisco, we have a very small middle class.
Well, you could simply not make a payoff possible. If you build, you must also build affordable housing. Period.
Alternatively, the city could just have its own housing company. In my hometown in Germany, more than half of all apartments are owned by the city or non-profit cooperatives.
we have a very small middle class.
That assumes there even is a middle class.
(Spoiler alert: there isn't.)
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Net-new luxury housing is good for affordability, because when someone moves into a more expensive unit, that frees up their current more affordable unit.
More to the point, Seattle literally just legalized missing middle housing in most of the city earlier this year. That's good for affordability, but new housing takes time to build. And developers will try to build the most lucrative project they currently can.
Housing is a matter of supply and demand. When you're in a housing shortage, prices will be high and most of the new supply will be luxury. The solution to a housing shortage is to build more housing, period. If you build housing faster than increasing demand from population growth, prices of units will go down. If you build housing and prices stay high, you didn't build enough. Build more. Remove NIMBYs ability to prevent new builds.
Which is not to say that building public housing or other projects to subsidize housing is a bad idea. But it's really, really hard to do that effectively during a housing shortage and solving the shortage is good for everyone except homeowners who wanted to use their equity as their retirement nest egg.
Trickle down housing doesn't work, we both know that.
I would almost guarantee that the amount of people leaving affordable housing to luxury housing is a completely negligible percentage, like <1% of home buyers. Prove me wrong, I guess, but your argument that building more luxury housing somehow benefits the middle and poor classes just reeks of nonsensical bullshit, sorry.
Paywall, what were the actual laws?
Thank you, I thought those captures were from archive.org and it didn't work.
Things are so in the shits even Bloomberg reports on these things.
Nooo my TrIcKlE DoWn EcOnOmIcS is the only thing that works. If we allow affordable housing, what’s next, can people marry a toaster!?
Nooooo. Think of the children!!
Think of how much productive work we can get out of them, you mean?
Those pedophiles wanting to marry a brave little toaster. Terrible people.