Should cities subsidize housing for a family making $141,000?
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[{"id": "em4pfns", "text": "No. If cities want to avoid housing affordability issues, then they need to revisit their land use policies and regulations. Subsidizing housing for a family making $141k reduces the burden on the family, but does nothing to actually resolve the housing affordability issue.", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "em4w4az", "text": "No that\u2019s fucking retarded causes huge dead loss. There is a massive middle income housing shortage in the USA but subsidies only exacerbates the problem shifting cost burden from the \u201clucky\u201d middle income families that are able to get off a wait list to wealthier tax payers and commercial property owners. If municipalities want to address the middle income affordable housing crisis they need to get smart about land use planning and fast track Type 1 construction projects to jam out low cost units. Issue will only be resolved thru supply increases since demand ain\u2019t stopping. Right now cities make it so difficult to build that developers are forced to put up type 2 class A to hit their ROC. \n\nGarbage like this is socialist pandering that only serves to confuse the issue and misinform voters who don\u2019t understand the CRE industry / economics of housing supply.", "replies": [{"id": "em6zgyu", "text": "This has nothing to do with economic theory - it's a ploy for votes and literal bribery.", "replies": [], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}, {"id": "em5232o", "text": "this is so stupid.  So essentially they are asking for rich folks to to pay for middle class housing because the middle class isn't being paid enough?  \n\nSeems like they should pay more competitive wages or relocate businesses to other areas with cheaper cost of living.  Why subsidize an already shit situation?", "replies": [], "depth": 1}, {"id": "em6qpab", "text": "My wife and I are not taking any handouts, and living on $20,000 a year. Don't think that a family of under 6 people making $141,000 a year needs any assistance...", "replies": [{"id": "em6ucs6", "text": "I will go out on a limb here and say that you're either in a very low COL area, or your circumstances are unusual and you're living somewhere \"non-traditional\" such as in a boarding house, camper, etc.. Around here, you'd need a gross monthly income of 3x rent just to qualify. This would have you living a place for $550/month, which is market rate in the worst sections of some of the nations most dangerous neighborhoods. Alternatively, if you owned in NJ or NYC, You'd probably barely be able to cover taxes and utilities, let alone food.\n\n&amp;#x200B;\n\nI suspect your disregarding the abnormally high COL for most of these cities that are considering assisting families making 140k/yr.", "replies": [{"id": "em6y0ka", "text": "We're barely getting by. I'm from San Diego, and food/housing assistance programs are very good here.", "replies": [], "depth": 3}], "depth": 2}], "depth": 1}]