Monday, October 23, 2017

Local Rules and Affordable Housing Options

October 16, 2017                           By: John McManus

A tide of young activists in metros that have gotten too expensive to develop will move the NIMBY needle, or move, period.


Grabar offers a microcosmic view of American housing's theme and variations here in an article, titled "San Francisco's Civil War."

The Slate sub-headline reads, "YIMBYs! Socialists! The only thing the Bay Area’s tenant activists hate more than high rent is each other."

Slate finance writer Henry

But both the title and the subhed belie the true breadth of the story, which Grabar captures in his lead sentence.

"Local politics is always, in one way or another, about housing."

Policy-makers and economists focus on national levers they might engage or release to get housing back on track compared with prior recovery periods following a cyclical trough
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