Those who hoped to save energy or reduce greenhouse gas emissions by getting people out of their cars and onto transit are doomed to disappointment.
There is nothing “affordable” about taking $300 million of our TABOR tax refunds for a flawed housing measure.
The solution isn’t targeted programs that eventually involve the government in actively encouraging racialist thinking – it’s to increase supply to make housing more affordable for everyone.
This initiative gets the government even deeper into the real estate business.
The fundamental problem with sky-high housing costs is that government restricts the construction of housing and restricts how people may use their housing, as through occupancy limits.
The town council of Crested Butte is prepared to exacerbate the affordable housing problem in the name of going green.
Research has shown inclusionary zoning raises overall housing costs, as developers try to recuperate the cost of the mandated affordable units by raising rents on the market-rate ones.
Without tax dollar subsidies, these projects don’t make economic sense.
Vail Resorts wants to build affordable housing because they want to make money. It’s a textbook economic exchange, where both parties are better off.
Adding regulations to the construction of homes and other buildings boosts upfront costs, period.
“We say one thing about affordable housing, yet we continue to do something else that continues to drive the cost up”–Sen. Dennis Hisey
Many legislators wish to impose the sort of harms on others that they would decry as profoundly unjust if applied to them.
