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Cities’ Favorite Affordable Housing Tool Doesn’t Build Housing. It Blocks It.
Across the country, many cities have settled on the same fix for housing shortages: order developers to include affordable units in every new project, or charge a fee if they don’t. Boston does it. So does San Francisco, Chicago, and Denver. The pitch is that affordability comes free, paid for by the market-rate units next...