Developing Affordable Housing Ecosystems World Wide
Every now and then, the little guys win one, and when they do, as in this day-in-the-life farce reported in a recent Washington Post article, the resulting splutters reveal some folks’ unbalanced view of rules – namely that they’re things I write and you obey.
To many in Old Town Alexandria, the sex shop that [...]
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday we saw that Disney, Anaheim’s biggest employer, though it had lost a 3-2 city council vote regarding a proposed high-end residential development, was suing the city to block it and had secured support of at least one useful person, Anaheim’s mayor, Curt Pringle.
We’re friends with the mayor!
Mayor [...]
At a time when workforce housing, especially in blue states and cities, is becoming an ever-more-serious problem, particularly at the local level, some employers are forging partnerships with local government to create new affordable housing.
And then there is Disney, which appears to be doing everything it can to keep ‘those’ people — who make [...]
Zoning is destiny, and like many other powers of government it can be wielded either as a crowbar (to pry open land use, as with inclusionary zoning) or a club (to preclude land use), in which latter use it is frequently deployed to exclude affordable housing. Because the kind of class snobbery of keeping out [...]
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