Date: September 20th, 2005

Affordable housing always costs money

20 September, 2005 (11:25) | Essential posts, Primer Posts |

Although sustainable affordable housing is good for communities, it always costs government money to close the cost-value gap, because of the affordability paradox:
 

The affordability paradox
 
In equilibrium environments,
both land and existing property are priced based on market values
… and that is not ‘affordable’ to people below median income
 

 

Markets are always in balance …
 
The reasons are [...]