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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is honestly idiotic. If middle income people won’t live in duplexes they can’t live in dense urban housing. You can’t “policy” your way into affordable SFH in close-in urban areas.

People in NYC already know this. The rest of the country apparently is too stupid to get it. [/quote]
Exactly. I am so, so tired of these people.

The only way for their to be "affordable homes" is for the government to build and subsidize them. If you are not advocating that, then all of these policy "reforms" are just nonsense.[/quote]

We are middle income.  We are happy to live in a duplex or a condo. The problem we are having is finding a condo that is over 800 sq ft we can afford.  There are larger condos but they are out of our price range.  I wish condo developers would consider that families would want to live in one and increase the size just a bit to 1000 or 1200 sq ft and instead of 2BR do more 3BR.

There is also the issue with condo fees.  High rise have high condo fees and often those fees are equal to the mortgage and at that point, the monthly mortgage plus condo fee can still price people out of the market or make them continue looking for a non-condo.  Maybe instead of higher condo fees, local govts could help condo boards establish some of their units for private businesses to help make money for the condo and reduce fees for owners.  or current condo buildings to encourage them to allow - when possible - owners to combine units into larger units.

I am not sure that would work but what I am trying to suggest is that instead of just building new buildings local govts could look for ways to use already existing dense housing stock more affordable to middle income buyers.
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