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How to Fix the Affordable Housing Gap
There is a campaign underway in Howard County Maryland to increase the supply of housing and make it more affordable. Currently more than 50% of teachers, as an example,live elsewhere because they can’t afford to live in the county.
Median homes price is more than$600,000. Median rent is $2100.
Barriers: zoning, the stigma of affordable housing (even in a progressive county), layers of regulation, and slow progress on new construction.
The county will have a new county executive after November. Housing activists have a playbook ready.
My conversation is with Nikki Highsmith Vernick…
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