Among Democratic candidates for president, the politics of America’s housing affordability crisis are getting complicated. Trump has barged in. Read here for the Democratic presidential candidate proposals for affordable housing. And here for Trump’s support of YIMBYs as his housing solution by removing restrictive local zoning to gut affordable and fair housing.
https://48hills.org/2019/06/wiener-quietly-turns-barber-bill-into-major-housing-legislation/ Gut-and-amend strategy puts a version of SB 50 on the legislative fast track. By Hydee Feldstein – June 18, 2019 State Sen. Scott Wiener, as predicted here, has taken an uncontroversial bill about cosmetology licenses and turned it into a complex and detailed piece of housing legislation that would undermine a long list of…
Landmark Deal Reached on Rent Protections for Tenants in N.Y. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/nyregion/rent-protection-regulation.html Newly empowered Democrats are trying to address concern over housing costs that is helping to drive the debate over inequality. By Luis Ferré-Sadurní, Jesse McKinley and Vivian Wang June 11, 2019 Newly empowered Democratic leaders in Albany announced a landmark agreement on Tuesday to…