Rojo27 [he/him]

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  • But then again, that could also become a form of gentrification which ends up displacing the poorer tenants, so this solution would have to include some sort of rent control to work.

    I think this is the big issue. For the amount of affordable housing needed in most major metro areas there’s need to be a much larger scale of affordable housing being built.

    In NYC at least there’s the 80/20 rule which states that new housing projects need to set aside 20% of units for low to middle income families. What happens when most of the construction is for low unit count luxury buildings though? More gentrification. Like sure technically you are mixing the housing to an extent, but if more of the unites are there for market rates, especially in a city like NYC, then you are really pushing out the poor because chances are that you demolished housing that was previously relatively affordable.

    The best thing that can be done is for the government to create its own housing development agency to construct and manage wholly affordable buildings physically located in various parts of the city so as to not segregate the population. Doubt it would ever happen these days though. There isn’t enough political will for it to happen.