Hey Folks, I have an opportunity here very soon to have some say in the affordable housing situation in my town (we’ll see). While I read over the planning and studies the town has already done, I’d like to get a sense of the field for what effective policy looks like, what current left thinking on the matter is.
I don’t know what I don’t know, you know? Obviously, any advocacy I do will need to be a synthesis of the conditions of the place I live and whatever current leading thinking is on the matter, while dealing with the limitations of liberal democracy. I figured this was a good place to ask.


Not the main point, but watch the youtube-channel Not Just Bikes theor series on Strong Towns (a research group about urbanisation), if you might have an impact on the urban planning as well:
Strong Towns are neoliberal dumbasses who promote the (proven false) claim that “building more housing drives down prices”.
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