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Sorry, Lance, your 3:06 response is not persuasive.

Affordable housing --at least in this case-- is not about helping "someone who doesn't have a home to live in because they don't have the means to even rent a room anywhere." It's about subsidizing the consumption choice (that is, the decision to "consume" living in certain neighborhoods of the District of Columbia) of people who meet certain income criteria.

Affordable housing is not inherently "affordable." It's just...subsidized housing; or, stated another way, "housing that is subsidized so that it is affordable to that subset of the income-eligible population that manages to get one of the apartments and that is willing to live in that specific location selected by the government."

We should not be subsidizing somebody's choice to live in a neighborhood that they cannot afford to live in. That housing is surely affordable to somebody. Why not let that somebody that pay the full freight benefit from their money? Subsidized housing takes housing AWAY from people that could afford to pay market rate with all kinds of negative consequences.

Does that seem fair? Not to me. Scrap affordable and public housing altogether and let the market sort and private sector charities sort this stuff out.

by Question II on Jun 1, 2012 3:17 pm • link • report

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