Cea Weaver

don't want to wade into housing discourse which i usually (miraculously, somehow) stay above but the whole "affordable for whom" narrative amongst progressive housing orgs seems like it has been a major strategic misstep for those of us who want to expand public/social housing

isolates the # of people who will fight for increase in capital investment, targets middle class residents instead of government policy or large developers, etc etc. the question should be what value are we creating, what's the (short and long term) public benefit?

it seems clear to me that there is a short-term public benefit to rezoning soho/noho and creating a lot of low income housing in one of the city's wealthiest neighborhoods.

it's also clear to me that the rezoning will create an immense amount of value (in one of the most valuable real estate markets in the world) for the developer class!

which makes the longer-term costs/benefits harder to gauge! this is not the argument that is being made tho. the argument that is being made is "affordable for who" and its exclusionary and silly when applied to soho/noho!