there were also strange alliances between largely homeowner-controlled neighborhood groups and these tenant orgs that prevented the production of new housing dating back to the 1970s/80s.
but Americans don't really want to address this contradiction. They want to do half-assed things. In SF, people created inclusionary housing policy to make new market-rate construction fund below-market rate housing (which is certainly better than exclusionary zoning)
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this is where you see things like "blah blah fought for 40% affordable housing." But the costs just get passed onto buyers of new market-rate housing, making it even more luxury, and it also doesn't really scale or produce that much housing. http://cityobservatory.org/inclusionary-zoning-has-a-scale-problem/ …
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if you also set the %s too high, it can shut down production of all kinds of housing as developers wait for nearby rents to get high enough to then justify & cross-subsidize the below-market-rate housing.https://twitter.com/khuey_/status/962109517696663552 …
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