The people who build homes want to get to the other side too. People with money who want to be innovative are not being encouraged. Affordable housing, that is $300.00 a month that is not going to become a crack slum would probably need lots of creative ideas. I think rent averaging would be nice, like utilities. Property taxes make affordable housing impossible because the property owners have to pay that.
On the no income, no job side of that, there is no place to live unless you have support or want to live in a shelter or with friends who will put up with you. For low income students or single mothers or families with children or a couple who have low income jobs there are only agencies to be directed to. I frankly don’t know what students do.
I think that some kind of contest to create affordable community housing that people could eventually buy or maybe even smart investors could buy would be a good idea. If business people could profit from the affordable community living in some way like a free building for a business like a market or tax credits for a while. Like patch a road, but without making it crappy.
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