Re:The Homeless Crisis Is Getting Worse in America’s Richest...
by DoreenMichele on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @11:12PM
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I think we need to restructure tax incentives related to housing and diversify our policies and finance mechanisms related to housing.
In a nutshell, the vast majority of our policies and programs related to housing are designed to support single family detached housing designed for a nuclear family or rentals that mirror that to a large degree. We created such systems practically overnight at the end of WW2. We have fleshed it out and tweaked it since then, but the underlying assumptions and mental models have remained largely the same. Meanwhile, reality has changed and what worked for the famines that became the parents of the Baby Boomers no longer really works, yet we aren't adapting.
(Source: I was specifically studying housing and housing policy and history in hopes of becoming an urban planner when life got in the way.)
In a nutshell, the vast majority of our policies and programs related to housing are designed to support single family detached housing designed for a nuclear family or rentals that mirror that to a large degree. We created such systems practically overnight at the end of WW2. We have fleshed it out and tweaked it since then, but the underlying assumptions and mental models have remained largely the same. Meanwhile, reality has changed and what worked for the famines that became the parents of the Baby Boomers no longer really works, yet we aren't adapting.
(Source: I was specifically studying housing and housing policy and history in hopes of becoming an urban planner when life got in the way.)