The failures of neoliberalism really burn through the page here - there is nothing in this piece. Resembling an explanation of how truly poor people, people in the 10th or 15th or 20th percentile of income, are going to find places to live. Even the most wildly optimistic yimby doesn't believe that reforms are going to make housing actually dirt cheap, just cheaper, and those people can't afford housing even under the best case projections for the reforms you want. So what do you have to offer them? In this piece, literally nothing.
This is explicitly addressed in the article, which advocates for direct rental subsidies for the poor instead of inclusionary zoning.
“Then, the government would use some of the increased property tax revenues to pay for rental subsidies for low-income families — perhaps with larger subsidies allotted if a qualifying family chose to live in a high-opportunity (and commensurately higher-cost) neighborhood.”
In Cambridge, there’s a dedicated entity (Cambridge Housing Authority) for the group of folks you’re talking about funded in part with local taxes (a larger tax base helps CHA provide more housing).
The failures of neoliberalism really burn through the page here - there is nothing in this piece. Resembling an explanation of how truly poor people, people in the 10th or 15th or 20th percentile of income, are going to find places to live. Even the most wildly optimistic yimby doesn't believe that reforms are going to make housing actually dirt cheap, just cheaper, and those people can't afford housing even under the best case projections for the reforms you want. So what do you have to offer them? In this piece, literally nothing.
This is explicitly addressed in the article, which advocates for direct rental subsidies for the poor instead of inclusionary zoning.
“Then, the government would use some of the increased property tax revenues to pay for rental subsidies for low-income families — perhaps with larger subsidies allotted if a qualifying family chose to live in a high-opportunity (and commensurately higher-cost) neighborhood.”
In Cambridge, there’s a dedicated entity (Cambridge Housing Authority) for the group of folks you’re talking about funded in part with local taxes (a larger tax base helps CHA provide more housing).