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Please explain more. I do see that due to cost of land,materials, labor and gov't regs make building inexpensive dwellings not profitable. Where the land and labor is cheap, few want to live there. --174.225.xxx.xxx

Too early to tell, there are a ton of politics involved. City planning and building departments are highly entrenched, the "Not in My Backyard" crowed will push against changing zoning, the local officials that have grown up by having their pockets lined by getting projects approved, to name a few. As Frank points out, you have to make it profitable and low hassle for builders to move into the affordable housing market. Likely the new units built will not be targeted at affordability but it will cause a trickle down effect that will more directly solve affordability. The premise is sound: Increase supply to meet or exceed demand will cause more affordable housing. It will be interesting to watch over the coming months/years to see if city management will change. --50.26.xx.xxx

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reason.com/video/stossel-in-defense-of-capitalism/?utm_medium=email --50.82.xxx.xx

They also are completing the third and final phase of a oceanfront project called Pier Village. Also they have just completed a purchase of a stalled redevelopment project of the long defunct eminent domain project. All. Very high end. --174.225.xxx.xxx

where an old shopping mall was repurposed into micro-apartments. If I had vast bins of unlimited money, I'd totally do that... but of course, even if you had the $10-$25 million for the initial buy-in, you still had to deal with zoning modifications before you could redevelop it to your own vision. --96.46.xxx.xx

Biologists found that when rats are packed too closely together they fight. Pack people too closely together and they will fight also. --173.61.xxx.xx

Or make friends, form bonds and create a neighborhood, Ally. --50.82.xxx.xx

One thing is certain: people find a way. We're all in this game with our best interest in mind. When Govt tries to artificially pick winners and losers, we ultimately all end up losing something and the results are not as good as if the free market determined the optimal solution(s). --173.20.xxx.xxx

Springfield, MA might have a good plan going. It’s kind of a war zone. I avoid it at all costs because people get shot, stabbed and robbed there almost daily. But, it is a big city where a LOT of people work and live. They have a lit of vacant shopping plazas because shopping plazas are being replaced by online shopping ....and no one likes to go shopping in a war zone anyway. Except for the people who already live there. They are going to build the affordable housing right in the shopping plaza. The idea is to put the Walmart shoppers right next to the Walmart/ grocery store/ pharmacy/restaurants. The idea is to put the housing in an area that nobody will complain about ( because it’s better than abandoned buildings) and to provide the remaining stores with customers. --71.10.xxx.xxx

In the province of Ontario there is lot of single family houses where expensive half million plus in major cities where rental units are in short supply as there is a provincial rent control where builders are not building rental apartment buildings as the uncertainty rent controls will be put on newer rental units. Most new multi unit construction are condominiums as the supply of condominiums is increasing where it is more difficult to get a mortgage. If one is willing to move far out of the major urban areas the cost of single family houses, condominiums becomes more reasonable where it is still possible to buy a modest single family house from $250,000 Cdn. So in the end if one has the funds housing is available. --147.194.xxx.xx

SB 1069 allows every single family home in California to build a secondary unit. That's one way they're trying to solve the housing crisis. Still, a studio apartment here goes for $12-$1500 per month, a 1 bedroom bungalow or apartment $14-2200, 2 bedroom ~$2200+ and on up the line. With building costs these days, that's what it would take to make the expense worth it. So...1069 helps someone, but not the low-income workers who need housing here to keep our restaurants, groceries, hotels and retail establishments staffed. --24.176.xxx.xxx

The writing is on the wall. My city, along with it's lovely charm, is going downhill. There's no coming back from this. --68.8.xxx.xxx