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Thanks to @kevaldrid and @enquirer for giving me the space to talk about a growth-focused housing-for-all agenda. https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/2021/02/03/opinion-housing-all-critical-regions-growth/4364127001/
Liberty and Elm is a no-brainer. Approve it and let’s move on to creating a strategy for ALL housing. Growing our region requires affordable, workforce, and market rate housing. This helps our overall economy, creates opportunity, and helps us solve other challenges we face.
The @cincychamber data shows we are falling behind in housing and in population growth. My colleague @markylander leads the Chamber's Center for Research and Data - and we'll have lots more to come on this subject.
I think we have to consider these complicated issues with a foundational goal of growing our population. In the city and in the region. There are some ideas in the op-ed that might be helpful as we all work together to accomplish that goal.
I'd urge you to follow people like @bruddtweets @jasonszegedi @lukeblocher for good content on these issues. Feel free to add others in the replies.
And I thought this thread was smart: https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1351574222867296262?s=20
The YIMBY approach needs more attention here locally. Lots of good data and approaches. We need to get this right to grow.
If Cincinnati is going to be a city of 500,000 again, and if our region is going to compete, we need to start prioritizing major new housing growth now. For all. (end)