This morning we wanted to take a peek at an idea that might be the future for Kansas City and so many other urban areas amid the ongoing housing crisis.
PROJECTS DISGUISED AS "SOCIAL HOUSING" ARE THE NEW HOTNESS!!!
Take a peek at the verbiage that'll be used for more barrio & ghetto building:
Now, with an acute nationwide housing shortage, and declining home construction due to high interest rates, the idea is spreading, and more local officials have been moving forward with plans to create publicly owned housing. They are very clear about not calling it “public housing”: To help differentiate these projects from the typical stigmatized, income-restricted, and underfunded model, leaders have coalesced around calling the mixed-income idea “social housing” produced by “public developers.”
“What I like about what we’re doing is all we have effectively done is commandeered the private American real estate model,” Zachary Marks, the chief real estate officer for Montgomery County’s housing authority, told me in 2022. “We’re replacing the investor dudes from Wall Street, the big money from Dallas.”
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
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