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"Affordable housing has a specific definition of housing cost relative to medium income"
Medium income? What is that? Is it a hard number?
I pull down a little over $200k a year. If I were to take a job in DC, which was always a threat, I'd be living out in West Virgina somewhere. Would the intent of "affordable" housing be to ensure that people such as myself were able to get something in Georgetown? Because I don't have a few million to put down on a house.
Like I said, I think it could be done, it would just be through government owned property where market value did not play a role in what the tenant paid.
The other thing-affordable housing is basically a handout to employers. If employers cannot afford to operate in an environment where they can pay workers enough to survive at market rate, they don't have a viable business model.