In Vienna, Austria, attractive and well-maintained public housing accounts for an estimated 40% of the housing stock. It's home to singles, families and senior citizens — and most important, it’s mixed-income. (wamu885)
currently held by David Grosso. But he says it's the clearest solution to the District's housing crunch.
"The way the system works now is our tax dollars are being thrown at developers who are building a bunch of projects that are inaccessible to a large number of people who live in the District today," Merrifield says. D.C.'s approach mirrors how most affordable housing is built in the U.S. today. Nationally, housing for low- to moderate-income people is largely a private enterprise, with homes constructed by for-profit developers subsidized by. But the system is imperfect, low-income housing advocates say. Tax-credit properties are only required to remain affordable for 30 years, and the credits aren't producing deeply affordable housing at the scale Americans need.
Maryland Del. Vaughn Stewart faced tough questions when he introduced his first social housing bill in Annapolis last year. The freshman lawmaker, a Democratic Socialist, had proposed financing a statewide social housing initiative through a $2.5 billion government bond and a tax on millionaires."We raised taxes on millionaires four times," said committee chair Del. Kumar Barve ."I tend to think that that's not going to be a good income source.
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