The Walsh administration’s housing plan provides good data, detailed projections, and smart analysis. And it offers strategies to solve the problem: zoning relief in locations with good access to transit; temporary relief from property taxes in special middle-income development areas; market incentives to develop 3,500 new units of senior housing as a way for the elderly to downsize; and the creation of 16,000 new undergraduate dorm beds along with off-campus student villages. But how willing is Walsh to fight this battle? If the mayor is serious, we should soon see him blasting through the NIMBY barricades and convincing his buddies in the building trades to bring down construction costs on homes for middle class families earning in the $50,000 to $100,000 range.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:19:13 +0000
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