Tales of the housing crisis

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some nonprofit groups that view private housing development as entitling them or their designees — as the voices for “the community” — to financial benefits. While developers have long negotiated community benefit agreements, San Francisco supervisors now commonly tell planning commissioners to delay or reject projects until the builder satisfies all of these “community” demands. This occurs even when the benefits demanded do not expand affordable housing.

I was recently in Seattle to talk about my new book on how progressive cities maintain exclusive and elitist land use policies. The Seattle Planning Commission had just released a powerful new report, “Neighborhoods for All: Expanding Housing Opportunity in Seattle’s Single-Family Zones,” calling for