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Re:Why Is 'Affordable' Housing So Expensive to Build? by Retric on Saturday January 06, 2018 @10:54PM (#16089035)
You could have separate entries for each part of the building and not share amenities, but this gets back to the central idea. If you allow people to segregate by price then they will do so. If every building in a city must have some affordable units then the city as a whole is better off, but it's going to feel less exclusive.

I can see both sides of the argument, but we need to figure out how to build cities that work or we are in for a lot of chaos.

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Re:Why Is 'Affordable' Housing So Expensive to Build? by boulos on Saturday January 06, 2018 @11:13PM (#16089103)
Separate entries are often done, but rightly referred to as "the poor door". I don't think there's much sense in half measures to do affordable housing: making a building that is effectively segregated is less efficient and sensible than the current San Francisco "just pay us" system.
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Re:Why Is 'Affordable' Housing So Expensive to Build? by Nomentatus on Sunday January 07, 2018 @08:55PM (#16094076)
But the poor want half measures a great deal more than they want none. Sometimes a door is just a door, and ya don't need access to the swimming pool, just to your job.
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