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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The only way to bring housing costs down is to build more densely.  That means building higher.

Shrug. It’s the only option.  We have to build higher.[/quote]

No developer is going to build tall affordable housing.  Ask the folks in New York and San Francisco how that theory is planning out.

In fact, by tearing down older class B and C apartment buildings in Upper NW which have a lot of rent controlled units to build luxury buildings, the stock of affordable housing will be reduced.[/quote]

A. There are already inclusionary zoning requirements on new developments, so yeah, there is tall AH

B. If you want to you could make specific AH requirements as a condition of building above the old height limit

C.  Adding total supply of even luxury new units, will draw people who might otherwise have gentrified a poor or transitional neighborhood.

D. If you want specific protections for older rent controlled units, you can add those. Or only allow more height on specified parcels that do not have existing apts.   [/quote]

Let's let certain buildings exceed the height limit by a modest margin only if they are rent controlled housing.[/quote]

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