Use the full toolkit: “Tackling the lack of supply cannot be a standalone strategy. It takes years to build housing & research has consistently shown that building housing alone is insufficient to meet the lowest-resourced households.”
Marshfield is not exurban or rural. Its just a well-to-do suburb on Rte 3, the major highway between Boston & Cape Cod. It doesnt have a special way of life, just a nice beachfront. Ridiculous to argue town gov’t cant figure out a place for multifamily housing w/o a consultant.
Biggest reason? The URDL & zoning. As the County’s 2020 Fair Housing Analysis admits, “New development is severely limited due to the County’s conservation based land use plan.” 71% of County acreage zoned agricultural/forest or very low density. And inside the URDL, new infill homes are resisted.
Despite complaints of “overdevelopment” & “school crowding” in Baltimore Co, very little new housing is getting built. In 1990-2010, new multifamily permits averaged 781/yr, down to 367/year from 2010-2022. SF permits down from 1946/yr to 679. And that was before interest rates spike in 2023. 1/
Yes, after much organizing Baltimore City, Anne Arundel & Baltimore Counties each enacted a local “HOME Act” w/ SOI protections. The General Assembly then passed a statewide version.
Thank you for noting. Would hope the harms of segregation & value of integration are beyond debate. Evidence like this from Chetty (& others) conclusively show harms of segregation & value of mixed income housing as platform for integration. But value largely ignored in IZ cost/benefit calculation.
Like others around the US, 74% of voucher users surveyed in Baltimore region report difficulty using their voucher. But despite SOI & Fair Housing laws, there are big disparities. 50% of white & 56% of senior voucher users report it is “not difficult” for them. Source:
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So much institutional failure in the last 14 months, and one of them is bar associations...
So many disbarments should have happened by now -- so, so many. (And if you tell me "it doesn't work like that" that sort of makes the point.)
Iran survived 10 years of brutal, bloody war w/ Iraq. What fantasy could possibly make Trump think they are going to surrender to him & his short attention span?
Texas builds a lot of housing but poor households largely shut out of the abundance. DFW has only 18 affordable & available rentals per 100 poor (30% AMI) people. Only Houston, Orlando and Las Vegas metros have fewer. About 81% of poor renters have severe cost burden, 2nd most severe in nation.
With each passing day the guy becomes more out of touch w/ reality & more & more of a megalomaniac.
I’m for funded IH. We have it here because we have a relatively weak market & even market rate construction was getting generous tax subsidies. But we cant extrapolate from our market to all other cities, even those w/ strong markets.
The data says otherwise. Just because you keep repeating that talking point over & over doesnt make it true.
“The research also shows that rent stabilization does not cause the problems that critics sometimes associate with it. In fact, no study, anywhere in the country, has shown a decline in new construction as a result of rent stabilization.”
What specific policies are you referencing? Data shows IZ programs produce slightly more affordable units & in higher opportunity locations than LIHTC, by far the US biggest affordable housing production program. Rising costs a problem for everything—all AH programs & also 100% market rate.
Vountary programs do not produce more than mandatory—if anything available data shows the opposite. It is also invalid to insist on ideologically driven generalized pronouncements based on 1 or 2 places ignoring the variety in local goals, program structure, state law, markets etc of 1000+ programs.
Have been seeing the Waymo cars tooling around Fells Point & Canton recently.
How so? There is no policy that “stands up well” to cost increases, especially the magnitude of cost increases in materials, labor & financing costs we’ve seen the past 4 years.
That isnt what the paper linked below says. Moreover, it is based on modeling, not actual experience of 1000+ IZ laws, & just one atypical city, (NYC). These generalized pronouncements seem ideological.
Jasmine Crockett is a class act. 💙
As Baltimore Co became the largest & most dominant jurisdiction in the region, its governance & culture remained stuck in a 1950’s mind set. A new & diverse generation of leaders have emerged to challenge the good old boys. The future of the whole region is at stake.
This should not be controversial: The housing crisis is complex & requires sustained action on multiple fronts. Land use reform is necessary to produce more housing supply to moderate rents/prices. At same time, broader & deeper affordability requires more, starting w/ gov’t subsidy & social housing
Affordable housing’ & the peoplevwho will live in it, is always greenlined ( i. e. targeted) to sites deemed undesirable for any other use. Doesnt sound like Seattle is affirmatively further fair housing.
Rowhouses in Salt Lake City!
NIMBYs will use any available regulations to slow down and block new housing.
As such, it is important for people with sincere commitments to worthy causes like environmentalism and historic preservation to call BS when NIMBYs weaponize their causes in bad faith to prevent neighborhood change.
I thought GOP was against the “Nanny state.”
Its one thing to day “ This is what works for us in this part of Jersey City the ladt 4 years & here is what isnt working now.” Its quite another to extrapolate to generalized prounouncements. Also, worked (or not)for what purpose? Maximizing integration, or affordable units or overall production?
No strategy “fixes all the problems.” All are necessary…& then some. Each works better or worse for at a given time, depending on market or n-hood conditions, fed funding, interest rates, some for affordable & some for market. Why try to rely that elusive silver bullet & write the others off?
Studies & experience have shown voluntary programs not very effective for obvious reasons.
Wishing he has spoken up like this before he decided not to run for re-election! GOP electeds who see the damage Trump is doing put themselves above the good of the country.
