How to solve a middle-class housing shortage? Inside San Diego's plan
San Diego will expand city efforts to spur construction of housing for middle-income residents with a new wave of reforms — including softer rules for removing historic structures, complying with water pollution mandates and using cheaper building materials.
Housing advocates and city officials say it’s crucial to spur more construction of such housing, stressing that nearly all construction in recent years has been either low-income housing because of government subsidies or high-income housing because of larger profit margins.The city’s Regional Housing Needs Assessment for 2010 to 2019 called for 15,462 new middle-income units to be built, but only 37 were constructed.
“There is no silver bullet,” said panelist Stephen Russell, executive director of the San Diego Housing Federation. “But there’s a multitude of ways we can work together to bring down the cost of housing. In aggregate, they add up to a significant effort.” Councilmember Vivian Moreno praised this proposal during a July 14 meeting of the City Council’s Land Use and Housing Committee.
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