How High Is It? Housing Affordability Measures are Way Off
Every year much is made by non-profit affordable housing advocates of the Out of Reach report, a study produced by the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC). Every year the study puts out a number of what a person would have to earn to afford an apartment. The standard always used is the typical one, […]
Low-Rise Battle: Filling the Missing Middle
I’ve written before about the importance of figuring out how to build more density into and around single-family and low-rise neighborhoods. For example, we talked about courtyard housing as a way to create more density and affordability. There’s a great term for this need: the missing middle. And there is a great website called the Missing […]
NIMBYs: “We Live in Fear” of Rowhouses
I’m not going to post much commentary on yesterday’s Planning Land Use and Sustainablity (PLUS) Committee meeting. I encourage you to watch for yourself about two hours of some of the most over the top reactionary NIMBY testimony to proposed low-rise legislation. I open the proceedings with a warning to Council (at 30:00) that they […]
