What Will It Take to Fix San Jose's Housing Crisis? [CityLab.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/29/174:00 AM

As the affordability crisis deepens in America’s most expensive cities, many are adopting ambitious plans to increase their housing supply. New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio has pledged to create or preserve 200,000 units of affordable housing, following the 165,000 preserved and created by his predecessor, Michael Bloomberg. Seattle has completed or begun construction on more apartments in the 2010s than in all of the previous 50 years combined. Even the notoriously growth-averse Bay Area has made some major strides: In 2011 San Jose committed to creating 120,000 new units of market rate and affordable housing by 2040.

[For more of this story, written by Benjamin Schneider, go to https://www.citylab.com/equity...ng-plan-spur/538074/]

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