What is “affordable housing”? All housing becomes affordable once you build enough of it. Is it just the politically correct way of saying “low-quality housing”?
> Without these goodies, some ED1 buildings will be ugly. Some will be poorly designed. Just about all of them, by definition, will be “out of scale” with their surroundings. (LA housing activist Joe Cohen has a great thread of renderings of ED1 projects.) I personally think all of that is ok. A housing emergency is no time for aesthetic perfection. LA, like San Francisco, is finally acting like it.
If "low quality" just means "ugly" then... Yes? But if "low quality" means "unlivable" then no.
I imagine they are keeping most of the safety ones.. but it wasn't well highlighted in the article
It's one of two things:
1. A polite way to say "housing project" or "subsidized housing" to not scare people.
2. A buzzword to force more housing density and/or promote social engineering agendas. When used in this sense, it isn't actually linked to affordability.
These practices either save or cost the builder, not the buyer, because the value is all locked up in land. And the extra layers of scarcity we impose around building on said land.
In other words, what are you talking about?