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Problems with this:
- I'm pretty serious abt the challenges posed by land availability & zoning to subsidized housing development (see pinned tweet) but care to guess how many LIHTC units we'd build a year if those barriers were gone?
https://brook.gs/39ybTXR via @BrookingsInst
- I'm pretty serious abt the challenges posed by land availability & zoning to subsidized housing development (see pinned tweet) but care to guess how many LIHTC units we'd build a year if those barriers were gone?
https://brook.gs/39ybTXR via @BrookingsInst
Not nearly enough to meet total need! We need vastly more subsidy, regardless of vehicle (though I'd prefer public housing to LIHTC), in order to meet need even with zoning reform.
- I think we should build public housing in exclusionary suburbs (or LIHTC in the absence of...
- I think we should build public housing in exclusionary suburbs (or LIHTC in the absence of...
...public housing); however, when there is a massive shortage of subsidized housing, is building public housing in areas of concentrated poverty really shifting low income households locational choices from high opportunity areas to areas of concentrated poverty? Looks more...
...like shifting folks from renting unsubsidized dilapidated housing in areas of concentrated poverty to living in public housing in the same areas to me. I'd agree that any significant investment in public housing should both desegregate the suburbs & reinvest in communities...
...of color, but there are still some gaps in the reasoning here!
- Are PHAs ill-equipped to be developers? Fascinating to posit that in the same piece in which RAD is later posited as a solution. Many PHAs around the country have created spun-off nonprofit developer arms to...
- Are PHAs ill-equipped to be developers? Fascinating to posit that in the same piece in which RAD is later posited as a solution. Many PHAs around the country have created spun-off nonprofit developer arms to...
...pull off RAD deals, quite a few of which include new construction components, not just rehab. There are clearly many capacity gaps among PHAs, but the idea that they lack expertise to build anything is both off & ignores the possibility of a PHA (or municipality) hiring...
...an experienced nonprofit developer to do aspects of the work that the PHA is in fact ill-equipped for.
- No one who supports increased public housing disagrees with the notion that it needs to be paired with long term commitment to operating & capital expenses.
- Despite...
- No one who supports increased public housing disagrees with the notion that it needs to be paired with long term commitment to operating & capital expenses.
- Despite...
...finding an example of a place where a housing authority did acquisition in a high opportunity area (suburban King County, WA), a strategy based primarily around acquisition of older multifamily developments will perpetuate segregation just about as much as one focused on...
...public housing development in areas where such development is the path of least resistance. The same zoning constraints discussed earlier in the piece have also influenced the existing distribution of nonsubsidized apartments!
- Again, a lack of engagement with the...
- Again, a lack of engagement with the...
...long-term cost implications of significant voucher expansion. I actually would universalize vouchers as a bridge, but the idea that they're more efficient over the long-term doesn't withstand scrutiny.
