YIMBY News for 8/10

[Eric Budd]

Making Affordable Housing Affordable to Build

Governing

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KEYWORD SCORE: 50.08. affordable, affordable housing, apartment, construction, development, house, housing, housing and urban development, housing cost, housing crisis, hud, income, market-rate, parking, project, rent, renter, supply, urban, zoning

In much of the United States, developers spend more to build an affordable apartment for a low-income family than a market-rate one just down the street — sometimes far more. It is one of the central paradoxes of the nation’s housing crisis: The affordable homes that lower-income renters need most tend to be the costliest to build. Colorado is an exception. In a recent study of more than 140 housing developments in California, Colorado and Texas, researchers at RAND, a nonpartisan research organization, found that affordable apartments in Colorado cost about $50 less per square foot to build t

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Is it wrong to send your kid to private school?

Vox - Policy

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KEYWORD SCORE: 19.33. development, housing, income, project, rent, segregation, single family

[image: Illustration of children boarding a school bus] *Editor’s note, August 9, 8 am ET: We’re bringing you some of our best-loved Your Mileage May Vary columns while Sigal Samuel is on parental leave. The one below was originally published in April.* *This unconventional advice column offers you a unique framework for thinking through moral dilemmas. It’s based on value pluralism: the idea that each of us has multiple values that are equally valid but that often conflict with each other. Submit your own question here.* *I’m trying to decide whether to keep my elementary school-age kid in th

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