It’s something I’ve been saying for a long time: Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning (MIZ) will raise the price of housing overall. Why? Because when you fee and tax the production of housing, even when you loosen the production limits, it will take longer and cost more to produce new housing. How do those extra costs get […]
Today the Planning, Land Use, and Zoning (PLUZ) Committee passed 11 amendments to the Mayor’s proposed framework for Mandatory Inclusionary Zoning. I’m not going to get into the technical details of all the amendments but the most significant one passed by the Committee was one that created a big dust up earlier this week. Herbold’s said in […]
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