I was recently in San Francisco, and had a conversation with a cab driver about the cost of housing. In SF they have fairly strict rent control which keeps housing affordable, and encourages longer term tenancy. Rents can go down, but can't go up more than a small percent. I see some potential classist ghettoization, but have we ever looked at why this would or wouldn't work in the Twin Cities?
Eric Meininger, Lowry HIll East
Kevin Lattimore a Junior at North H.S. wrote (and Shawn Lewis posted):
According to Deb Landy of Common Bond, Minnesota's largest provider of affordable housing, there are about 39,000 affordable housing units for the 80,000 Minnesota families who need them.
Bill Cullen responds:
Lets agree that if we ignore costs, housing is readily available. Therefore, if the only issue is affordability, we don�t need to build MORE housing, we need to make existing housing cost less or supplement low-income families.
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