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Home, Food Or Health Care: A Choice Many Renters Can't Afford


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2014 Jun 16, 4:24am   1,172 views  1 comment

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http://www.npr.org/2014/06/15/321696517/home-food-or-health-care-a-choice-many-renters-cant-afford

The central reasons for this crisis are:

- He says before he could break ground on recent building, he needed 33 separate sign-offs. It's not uncommon for it to take three years from when he buys a piece of land to when he can start construction.

- When it comes to affordable housing, there's a shortfall of almost half a million units in L.A. County, and it's only getting worse.

You don't need to allocate public resources. You just need to make it straight forward to build more.

#housing

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1   corntrollio   2014 Jun 16, 8:20am  

Heraclitusstudent says

You don't need to allocate public resources. You just need to make it straight forward to build more.

Agreed. We don't need subsidized housing, we need looser planning restrictions, looser zoning restrictions, fewer laws that serve as backdoor tools for NIMBYs, etc.

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