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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A small explainer with some good background - useful to read before the listening session

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ded17586597cc7e187c7388/t/66e720d98ca24d4acc2832a9/1726423257245/00-AHS+Explainer-final-b.pdf?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3o0NP9nXuxh854vempWg9_HkTzi0bBkDF1-eMrnc8MYUNL1VQsXw0Jneo_aem_Yr2CIDst5s7f02rDNcHgpQ[/quote]

Thank you for posting. It did a great job summarizing the issues. I wasn't even aware that public input had been sought this summer! And. I hadn't even considered the possibility that developers could combine adjacent lots:  
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      Might it be expected that outside financiers, developers, and builders will buy up and merge adjacent lots and erect
       multiplexes priced “at market” which will do nothing for “attainable” housing? This is a certainty. It has happened
       repeatedly in places where upzoning has been implemented. For example, in 2021, the Washington Post ran an article
         about how an area of starter homes was bought up by global investment entities, forcing out the original low-income
        homeowners and pricing the new units at market rather than “attainable” prices.36 Similarly, the actual examples above
      on page 3 shows the same effect. The AHS’s magical math does not work in the real world. 
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Christ on a cracker[/quote]

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