Housing that's Affordable
Affordable Housing
Tiny houses are adorable.
I wish I had the space to have one on my private property. I can see them as “mother-in-law” homes.
BUT – to make a series of them which would only house about
6 small families on a piece of property that could hold an apartment building
(or condo) of at least 30 homes seems to me to be foolish.
Let’s recognize that we MUST build UP. We have a huge housing shortage – and in
particular a huge shortage of housing that people with modest incomes can
afford.
Rather than subsidizing housing, how about building enough
small (but not tiny) apartments that have full apartments, parking, possibly
even an exercise room and a park for kids to play in…. If we build UP we can
have all of that at reasonable prices.
NIMBYs are partially responsible for the increase in
homelessness and the increase in traffic congestion. They vote against any project that would be
large enough to allow for different sized apartments at different prices – with
all the extras.
Let’s get practical.
Let’s increase housing. We need
it desperately.