“Housing becomes less affordable when we don’t build it, not when we do. Most important, it is not developers who benefit from our housing crisis but everyone who owns property. Yes, some deep-pocketed developers have profited handsomely in our overheated market. But so have landlords, who with limited competition have charged ever-higher rents. So have homeowners, whose property values have ballooned.” – A better way to solve the housing crisis — tax land, not development
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“one poor household is still living, shivering, in an extremely affordable house on Arlington Avenue” – The Red-Hot Rubble of East New York: How Brooklyn’s Gentrification Profiteers Are Expanding Their Boundaries