Necessary_Cat_4801 t1_j20dehr wrote on December 28, 2022 at 7:14 PM

No one really believes they want to build more housing, right? We want VT to be "rural" and it must look like a Currier and Ives print. If that means only rich old people/trustafarians can live here, oh well.

Does anyone think affordable housing would even matter? The workforce/demographic problem is so severe that even new housing doesn't seem like it would be enough. How in the world do you convince young people to move to the oldest (2nd oldest?) state in the country, where there is absolutely nothing to do by design?

Prohamen t1_j20xvro wrote on December 28, 2022 at 9:29 PM

i mean that is the catch 22 isn't it. No one wants to build anything besides luxary homes because building anything else is either too difficult due to zoning or doesn't yeild enough profit. That leads to too few workers, so you can't really build too many large scale industries, which means there isn't much attraction to the state.

My solution is the same as always, build massive amounts of public housing.

Necessary_Cat_4801 t1_j212c3o wrote on December 28, 2022 at 9:59 PM

I think policy-wise, the emphasis now is on mixed income developments. Concentrated public housing frequently turns into "ghetto" housing projects.

Prohamen t1_j213afm wrote on December 28, 2022 at 10:06 PM

it only turns into "ghettos" cause they end up under or defunded, leading to disrepair and poor quality housing. so the only people that end up living there are the ones despirate enough to live in poor conditions.

keep the funding up and more diverse people will live there

also "mixed income" is a misnomer cause you are only gonna get a mix of the economic bottom half or so. You won't get anyone rich living public housing and we should stop pretending like that will happen. The rich always find a way to segregate themselves away from poorer people.