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Smashingpmkns posted...

Where is that cheaper housing going to pop up? In the neighborhoods they spent the past few decades gentrifying? Lol

Yes. There and in all neighborhoods.
Where else would it pop up? We upzone those neighborhoods and increase density. Where do you think it should pop up?

I don't get how someone can both hate rich people gentrifying neighborhoods, while also saying we shouldn't build housing for those rich people to filter into instead.

Smashingpmkns posted...

I get the notion and I agree with it but none of this seems like an effort to provide affordable housing.

Creating more affordable housing is done in multiple ways. It's done by building market rate housing as well as subsidized housing for very low income people. Most housing is market rate and we need to improve zoning laws, as well as make it cheaper to build housing, in order to lower the costs of building homes. Lower costs of housing also means we can build more subsidized housing for less money.

Upzoning alone won't fix the housing crisis, but you won't fix the housing crisis without upzoning.