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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
If you ask whether it is possible that doing something just for the sake of doing something could actually make things worse, your motives come under suspicion.
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Which things are you concerned will get worse? Some think adding new housing will make housing more expensive, because new housing is more expensive than old house. This is confusing cause and effect. Demand is making housing more expensive, not new housing.
One thing that could potentially be made worse, though, is displacing communities of color near downtown with redevelopment. One way to mitigate that is to allow additional housing in other desirable parts of the city. Which is in the plan.
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But, I have heard concerns from people who believe the goals of the plan are noble, but fear that areas populated by the less affluent will be most easily be targeted by developers who want to build lots of apartments for young professionals at the expense of making urban housing even less available for the often minority families in these neighborhoods. I have heard no persuasive evidence that the plan will address, much less effectively address, this unintended consequence.
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We've yet to see the actual inclusionary zoning proposal, but they keep saying its coming.
