The "solution" they come up with?  Give builders tax credits!  This makes it cheaper for the RE developer to build, but why would he pass the savings along to the buyer?  The same market forces would keep the price high and the builder just pockets the additional profit.

It also doesn't encourage development of the type of housing needed.  It's the same suburban model of "starter homes" for families with "middle class": incomes.  What is needed are apartments for lower class people with min wage incomes.  Where are the Starbucks Baristas EMTs and CNAs and Uber drivers supposed to live?  Places for old retired people on fixed incomes.  Places for recent immigrants.

The Private Sector of builders doesn't build this type of housing, it MUST be done by Da Goobermint.  God forbid though you put forward the CFS solution of a socialist solution.  Capitalism will solve it, as long as we make their profits bigger, right? 

Un-fucking-believable.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-12/homebuyers-hit-by-price-surge-supply-crunch-rock-2024-election?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqEAgAKgcICjDi7PAKMIXduwIw68WSAw&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=la&gaa_n=AWsEHT64DovikYvRwVqpSCsiCOzEAW73iF1I_Z4qqXOU0dsbxD23yGMYSPw45OfJkMkUFz27anj81Y_aphrV&gaa_ts=66e3f33d&gaa_sig=wF27gFiTaM2Xz7NO4OkpBPbwwoSMSVc8b_z1u1wDwBe2iedUqWIxuj1pjcdXa3XnpJwHoFe8xTdZjCetDxXvJQ%3D%3D

Housing's Worst Crisis in Decades Reverberates Through 2024 Race

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QuoteThe Private Sector of builders doesn't build this type of housing, it MUST be done by Da Goobermint.  God forbid though you put forward the CFS solution of a socialist solution.  Capitalism will solve it, as long as we make their profits bigger, right? 

Yes, but I'm sure the plan is all news to Kamala too, she knows no more about it than we do.  It is a ploy to get votes.  Likely she just found out about it.  A ploy to get undecided votes.

The Jan 6th Capital insurrection demographic has been analyzed.  It turns out to be the same social class that elected Hitler.  Petite Bourgeois to be specific.  Small business owners, and self-employed people who do not draw a paycheck.  People who may even have a couple of wage slaves.  Likely not paid well.  The class of people who could use this kind of program.  People who hate the government until they want something from government.  It is a targeted campaign promise directed at them, and no more than that.

The tactic is probably is very effective, and likely turned a part of the potential Trump hurd to Kamala.

The Harris staff could have used AI to come up with the program after they determined which group they wanted to persuade.

Yet another "solution" to providing "Affordable Housing" which demonstrates just how out-of-touch with reality policy makers are with the mismatch between what they think the words "affordable" and "housing" mean.

$2500/mo gets you 300 square feet of living space.  Let's examine this realistically.

You work as a CNA in a Boulder Assisted Living Home for Cripples and Old Folks. or a Barista at a Starbucks.  You make $15/hr, $600/week.  Your rent alone burns up tour whole paycheck and you haven't bought food, paid utilities or anything else.

For this unaffordable housing, you get 300 sq, which if it's well laid out can be a good space, but having visited the units that Alaska Housing has I can tell you it's NOT well laid out.

For such small space, really an Open Floor Plan 20'x15' Studio is best, sticking an 8'x8' bathroom in a corner, but they instead throw in a wall to make it a  "1 Bedroom".  This makes BOTH the Living Room & the Bedroom into claustrophobically small rooms, and shrinks the bathroom to 6'x6'.  The bedroom is just about big enough to squeeze a double bed into.  The "Kitchen" is on a wall separated from the Living Room by an Island, leaving just enough space for a small couch and your Entertainment Center.  Maybe you get 1 or 2 tiny closets.

If the unit at least has a porch or balcony it's somewhat livable, but the unit I looked at did not.  The building hallways were narrow also, and overall it felt like a Prison.  My current space is better laid out.

Besides the fact it sucks, the number of the units available is FAR short of the demand.  The Waing List for the Alaska Housing Units is 18 months and growing longer.  It's a total failure on all levels, and it sounds the same in Boulder.

https://www.denverpost.com/2024/09/15/affordable-housing-boulder-laughable-letters/

Letters: $2,500 a month "affordable" housing plan in Boulder is laughable

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Quote from: RE on Sep 15, 2024, 12:46 PMhttps://www.denverpost.com/2024/09/15/affordable-housing-boulder-laughable-letters/
Letters: $2,500 a month "affordable" housing plan in Boulder is laughable
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Indeed. Daughter owns her own townhome and the mortage with a minimum down payment is <$2000 month in the Denver area. Could commute to Boulder without trouble if she wanted to. And between her 3 floors including her garage it certainly isn't 300 ft^2, I think it runs more like 1500 ft^2.

Pearl street is pretty close to the college, so it is some premo area but that doesn't justify $2500 month for 300 ft^2 under any purchasing there that I can ever imagine. I wonder who the article is meant to scare (as opposed to just being doomer bait).

Of course, she is young and has done what anyone wants their children to do (not that anyone else here is a parent) so in doomer land that makes her exceptional and all. Admittedly, she was properly raised.