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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Serious question

Why do we need affordable housing at all

It just creates artificial floors, screws the middle class who make just over the income cutoff.  People don't have right to live anywhere

Is this some liberal white guilt thing?[/quote]

It may have started as a liberal white thing, but in order to obtain Federal government subsidies for many programs, the Feds are requiring that a certain percentage of housing in areas be affordable.  No affordable housing, no government tit.[/quote]

I'm all for AH. I just want it to be mixed income, so that we're not economically segregating people or sheltering one area of the county from having AH.[/quote]

Is your concern that individual buildings be mixed income, or the distribution of AH among neighborhoods?

If the former, than you should applaud things like inclusionary zoning.  The all AH buildings would be problematic - but they do deliver a lot of units relatively cheaply.  Not sure how easy it would be to get that many units in mixed income buildings.

If its neighborhoods, well it has hard to get these buildings in SFH zoned areas. More ADU's would help.   The County could buy land in places like the RB corridor for AH, but that would be expensive. [/quote]

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