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In a few hours, @MayorBowser will unveil her plan for building 36,000 new housing units — 12k of them affordable — by 2025. Her report shows where affordable housing is now, and what parts of town (Ward 3, Capitol Hill) have to add more to keep to citywide goals.pic.twitter.com/Ai7prX8OWB
Of course, the report only outlines goals — the big challenge is how to achieve them. Building affordable housing in Ward 3 will be expensive and politically challenging. Will more money be added to Housing Production Trust Fund for it? And what about local opposition?
My colleague @allyschweitzer is covering all things housing these days, so give her a follow for news on Bowser's plan and how it will actually be executed.
Oh, and for anyone asking what "affordable" housing really means, here's a handy chart to describe the broad range of incomes for which affordable housing could be built.pic.twitter.com/eLLPdSVUvc
Plenty of people asking why Bowser's plan doesn't set a goal of all 36,000 units being affordable. My guess: short of the city building public housing, the cost of subsidizing all 36,000 units would be astronomical.
Consider this: the $100 million D.C. was spending from the Housing Production Trust Fund every year was building or preserving around 1,100 units. So the cost of 36,000 units would be... well, do the math.
Where do those regions come from? Just hard to follow as usually numbers are by ward and I’m unsure of the boundaries or choices here for the map/table.
Those have been the areas used for all citywide planning, i.e. the Comprehensive Plan.
Is there any housing being built west of Rock Creek at this point?
There's the big development going up in/around the old Fannie Mae building (due 2022, I think), but the locals have been stymieing pretty much everything else.
How does the Mayor define "affordable" housing? How does your community define affordable housing? How do you define affordable housing?
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