Each time the standard deduction is raised, fewer homeowners itemize —& that means fewer get the mortgage interest deduction. So lets do away w/ the very costly MID that only benefits the most affluent. Replace it w/ a refundable housing tax credit for all low & mid class renters & homeowners.
We spoke with @houstonchronicle.com about #TheGap26 and how Houston being the 3rd most severe housing shortage nationwide is the data backed reality that diverts from the reputation that Texas has for affordability. www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
Housing affordable at 60% of AMI if it is subsidized & subject to a deed restriction or regulatory agreement SHOULD be exempt from property taxes—-regardless whether it is for profit or nonprofit. Lots of private schools, social clubs, churches, etc that provide less social value are tax exempt.
Yes & that means designing new housing & public spaces for families w/ children.
Its easy to attract upper-mid class 20-somethings right after college w/ tiny apartments & trendy amenities.
But many cities have given up on keeping them as they start forming families. Once gone, most dont come back.
Baltimore Harbor. First sunset of Daylight Savings Time.
Fox showed footage of Biden looking at his watch 10 million times for months, but airs old footage of Trump rather than show him wearing a campaign hat he’s currently selling for $55 at the dignified transfer.
FYI, Mt Washington is not “near” Baltimore City it is a part of Baltimore City. (And yes, safe if kind of boring).
If the media is going to feed the perception of the city as high crime, it can at least accurately acknowledge that many city n-hoods are as safe as most suburbs.
All of the Council incumbents running for re-election or County Exec have been part of problem. None ever had political courage or integrity to say “This is unacceptable, much less file a bill to address cited FH barriers. Instead pandering to NIMBYs, e.g on Lutherville Sta & school crowding APFO.
Hopefully. But still too much well rehearsed, scorched earth name calling & simplistic talking points on here from both sides. Much of it from true believers new to the housing crisis. Counterproductive, obnoxious & most people are tired of it.
Repeatedly cited as Fair Housing barrier by Baltimore Co MD itself: Apts only permitted by right in 3.2% of land in County. Zones where >20 units/acre allowed are tiny. Some exceptions allowed by PUD’s & Councilmanic Courtesy, a political process designed to give veto power to NIMBY SF homeowners.
“Why won’t you all listen to my expertise on affordable housing!?” screams the increasingly agitated owner of a restaurant that costs $425/person to make a reservation
NYS state steps up w/ $50M for housing voucher program. If it looks small compared to the need—it is. Despite the housing crisis, all housing programs are chronically underfunded & can only help a “lucky few.” US could easily fund a voucher for everyone in need.
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The title company said they dont search for Vacant Building Notices? They likely just messed up because the VBN should be right on the lien sheet they definitely pull. File a claim on the title insurance.
Safety doesn’t come from raids, cages, or surveillance. It comes from strong communities with affordable housing, access to food, healthcare, and quality schools that give our kids a real future.
Affordable housing mandates like Mt Laurel, Mass Ch 40B & IZ punch above their weight. They not only bring affordability & integration to exclusionary places that hoard resources. Overlooked is the way they also leverage market rate development in places where it would otherwise be resisted.
No state is building enough affordable housing to meet demand. The shortage reaches 7.2 million affordable rental homes for very-low-income renters, those earning below 30% of area median income, leaving just 35 units per 100 people
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Its getting hard to tell NIMBYs from the Libertarian branch of YIMBYs:
NIMBYs: “ We’re for affordable housing—just not here in our nice n-hood. Libertarians: “ We’re for affordable housing —just not here in our nice new building. Or if it requires gov’t subsidy. All affordability mandates are bad!
Use the full toolkit: “Tackling the lack of supply cannot be a standalone strategy. It takes years to build housing & research has consistently shown that building housing alone is insufficient to meet the lowest-resourced households.”
Marshfield is not exurban or rural. Its just a well-to-do suburb on Rte 3, the major highway between Boston & Cape Cod. It doesnt have a special way of life, just a nice beachfront. Ridiculous to argue town gov’t cant figure out a place for multifamily housing w/o a consultant.
Biggest reason? The URDL & zoning. As the County’s 2020 Fair Housing Analysis admits, “New development is severely limited due to the County’s conservation based land use plan.” 71% of County acreage zoned agricultural/forest or very low density. And inside the URDL, new infill homes are resisted.
Despite complaints of “overdevelopment” & “school crowding” in Baltimore Co, very little new housing is getting built. In 1990-2010, new multifamily permits averaged 781/yr, down to 367/year from 2010-2022. SF permits down from 1946/yr to 679. And that was before interest rates spike in 2023. 1/
Yes, after much organizing Baltimore City, Anne Arundel & Baltimore Counties each enacted a local “HOME Act” w/ SOI protections. The General Assembly then passed a statewide version.
Thank you for noting. Would hope the harms of segregation & value of integration are beyond debate. Evidence like this from Chetty (& others) conclusively show harms of segregation & value of mixed income housing as platform for integration. But value largely ignored in IZ cost/benefit calculation.
Like others around the US, 74% of voucher users surveyed in Baltimore region report difficulty using their voucher. But despite SOI & Fair Housing laws, there are big disparities. 50% of white & 56% of senior voucher users report it is “not difficult” for them. Source:
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So much institutional failure in the last 14 months, and one of them is bar associations...
So many disbarments should have happened by now -- so, so many. (And if you tell me "it doesn't work like that" that sort of makes the point.)
Iran survived 10 years of brutal, bloody war w/ Iraq. What fantasy could possibly make Trump think they are going to surrender to him & his short attention span?
Texas builds a lot of housing but poor households largely shut out of the abundance. DFW has only 18 affordable & available rentals per 100 poor (30% AMI) people. Only Houston, Orlando and Las Vegas metros have fewer. About 81% of poor renters have severe cost burden, 2nd most severe in nation.
With each passing day the guy becomes more out of touch w/ reality & more & more of a megalomaniac.
