New Orleans Let’s be clear: inclusionary zoning is a good thing! The problem is a bit like fake news though. What is real inclusionary zoning versus something that just claims to be creating affordable housing, while doing very little past the claim? This nightmare is unfolding in different versions repeatedly in New Orleans offering …
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Inclusionary Zoning Lite and Little
New Orleans Catching up on back papers I found both the interesting and the disappointing. Let’s start by keeping it positive and look at something called RentCheck, which is an application designed for tenants, but gaining some support by landlords, finding it useful enough that they have downloaded it in 40 US states and seven …
Making Inclusionary Zoning in the US, Canada, and United Kingdom Really Work
Little Rock In New York City recently there was some guarded optimism among affordable housing advocates when the City Council passed modifications requested by Mayor Bill De Blasio to improve the inclusionary zoning requirements. The new rules would hold developers responsible for providing 20 to 30% of all units as affordable housing to families …
Attacks on Fair Housing and Affordable Housing Demands
New Orleans Talking on “Wade’s World” on KABF with George Washington University sociology professor and frequent author, Gregory Squires, about his recent piece in Social Policy on the impact of the Occupy movement, he underlined his concern that the “disparate impact” theory is under review in the term of the US Supreme Court and the …
Inclusionary but Unaffordable “Affordable” Housing in London
London In the dark days of neo-liberalism when cities and states are embracing private developers to impact their profound public responsibilities to provide decent and adequate housing for families regardless of income the whole notion of so-called “affordable” housing seems to have been left in the rubbish at the construction site. Where recently we thought …