In my town, the state government is actually funding public housing and has plans to build multifamily low income homes in the area. Alllll of the upper middle class white homeowners are up in arms over it. It's really neat seeing the diversity-loving, BLM-supporting liberals quickly abandon all pretense and say they don't want crackheads and moms with a dozen kids moving into their neighborhood and driving down property values.
I think some major cities (Chicago?) are starting Single Family Home/Residence Re-Zoning to create more denser housing which is needed across the US in major cities to stifle major rental increases and to open up housing for those who can not afford it currently.
Rezoning for SFH/SFR plots to more multi-unit properties is one of THE major hurdles in solving rental/housing issues across the nation in regard to major cities.
Rezoning on it's own isn't going to do shit, honestly. There's already massive amounts of vacancies and artificial scarcity driving up pricing. (the build baby build neoliberals will purposefully omit this)
Without any state-driven public housing systems to go along with the necessary increase in density, there won't be major changes in pricing.
What’s going on with rezoning?
In my town, the state government is actually funding public housing and has plans to build multifamily low income homes in the area. Alllll of the upper middle class white homeowners are up in arms over it. It's really neat seeing the diversity-loving, BLM-supporting liberals quickly abandon all pretense and say they don't want crackheads and moms with a dozen kids moving into their neighborhood and driving down property values.
I think some major cities (Chicago?) are starting Single Family Home/Residence Re-Zoning to create more denser housing which is needed across the US in major cities to stifle major rental increases and to open up housing for those who can not afford it currently.
Rezoning for SFH/SFR plots to more multi-unit properties is one of THE major hurdles in solving rental/housing issues across the nation in regard to major cities.
Rezoning on it's own isn't going to do shit, honestly. There's already massive amounts of vacancies and artificial scarcity driving up pricing. (the build baby build neoliberals will purposefully omit this)
Without any state-driven public housing systems to go along with the necessary increase in density, there won't be major changes in pricing.