in addition because inclusionary housing policies rely on private developers to provide affordable housing units the requirements need to be appealing to developers and not constrain development this often means that the thresholds for qualify ing income levels are set high and can exclude the lowest income households leaving housing decisions to developers creates a risk that such a policy reinforces patterns of exclusion rather than mitigating them cameron meda for example denver s inclusionary housing ordinance was initially designed to address urban sprawl and strenuous commuting costs for lower and middleincome workers