It really is simple: "Too often, policymakers ignore the obvious solution to homelessness — housing — in favor of immediate (and generally ineffective) responses, such as criminalization. Forced displacements and criminalization move people from one place to another, increasing their trauma and exacerbating the barriers they face to housing, while doing nothing to solve the underlying problem. "
NIMBYism 2.0: The growing need for #affordablehousing has put #NIMBYs on their heels. But they’re not giving up; they’re just changing the subject. In a Denver suburb, you see a new tactic: Demand apartment developers build parks or other open spaces. Parks are, of course, desirable, but should apartment owners and their tenants bear the entire cost? The aim, of course, isn’t more parks, it’s less housing. https://denverite.com/2024/03/21/lakewood-save-belmar-park-developers-green-open-space-petition/
Charity weekend! On Saturday evening Bob and Sue Engler and I attended Senior Concerns’ annual fundraiser, supporting this nonprofit’s essential services for older residents.
On Sunday we were back for the Many Mansions Bowls of Hope event, where we joined Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin, Ventura County CEO Dr. Sevet Johnson (pictured here with VCOE superindent Dr. Antonio Castro), and many other local community leaders in serving up tasty soups to hundreds of attendees interested in housing for everyone.
Delighted to say both events drew full-house crowds.
The Sen̓áḵw development sounds amazing, and because of my recent obsession I've looked a little more into the parking situation. It's "being designed as a car-lite minimal parking development with roughly 600 vehicle parking stalls for 6,000 residents, with an emphasis on transit and active transportation including a transit hub, new bus stops and thousands of secured bike parking spaces." https://www.shapeyourcity.ca/senakw-kits-point/widgets/144177/faqs#AffordableHousing#Indigenous#Parking
"I’m 60 yrs old now & planning to retire soon. I will spend the next year or two finishing development projects, but once I’m done with those, I’ll turn my full attention to my retirement project: bringing the #BritanniaHouse model to other locations in #BritishColumbia & maybe the rest of #Canada. One of my primary objectives was to prove that building #AffordableHousing quickly & without government subsidies is possible & this is one way to do it."
There is a city in CA where rents are ... actually falling. It’s Sacramento. How did this miracle of #affordablehousing happen? The city pursued a “more of everything” strategy. Yes, let’s have more subsidized apartments, but also more middle-class and luxury housing. Local officials streamlined approvals, lowered development fees, encouraged density and eliminated parking minimums. Result: A boom in residential construction and, as predicted, lower rents. https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/sacramento-california-affordable-housing-18663865.php
Why has the arrival of migrants caused such problems in big cities? After all, until the 1920s, immigration was mostly unfettered; NYC accommodated large numbers of newcomers daily. Other cities, like Chicago, saw huge internal migration. So why such difficulty now? It’s another result of our #affordablehousing crisis, caused by a half-century of bad housing policies. Add to it our neglect of #homelessness, which makes shelters (where they exist) full. https://www.vox.com/24063986/cities-migrant-crisis-border-overwhelmed-shelters
Great reporting by the @coloradosun on how Glenwood Springs mobile home park residents bought the park themselves, rather than letting it fall into the hands of a corporation with a reputation of being a shitty landlord.
He is among a large population of elderly people living in poverty or on its brink in British Columbia, where perennially high housing costs exacerbate countrywide cost-of-living woes.
Ah, supply and demand! One of the most important questions about #affordablehousing is this: Does building more apartments make rents more affordable? Or does new housing just push up rents for those nearby (i.e. cause gentrification)? A team at NYU looked at all the major studies that have been done of new housing’s impact on rents and found … yes, additional #housing makes rents more affordable … even for those living nearby. https://commonwealthbeacon.org/housing/study-says-boosting-housing-production-tempers-rents/
“On the low end, we are spending roughly $13,639,500,600 making homeless people uncomfortable. Imagine the headway we could make if we spent that same amount of money making homeless people not homeless. Would homelessness even exist if that were the case?”
Proof on my street this morning that BC’s new law around #ShortTermRentals is having an immediate, positive, impact on providing housing!
This house sold in the Spring. A young couple from Victoria bought it. Almost immediately, there were BnB guests every weekend continuing through the summer and into fall. Then the new legislation came in.
Today, a family is moving in for what the owners said was a year-long rental until the owners move here. #bcpoli#housingCrisis#AffordableHousing#airbnb
MKE County: Whitefish Bay Affordable Housing Development Approved on Appeal (urbanmilwaukee.com)
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