If someone proposed building poorly-constructed buildings with code violations all over as a strategy for housing poorer folks, they'd be rightly criticized.
Yet many folks base anti-poverty strategies on preserving just this kind of housing for poorer folks.
Yet many folks base anti-poverty strategies on preserving just this kind of housing for poorer folks.
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Matt Hutchins
You can preserve Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing (NOAH) if you want, but it is affordable because it most likely doesn’t meet today’s energy, life safety or acoustic code.
Let’s not sing paeans to drafty, creaky, leaky, thin-walled apartments of yore as our affordable housing policy, eh?
Let’s not sing paeans to drafty, creaky, leaky, thin-walled apartments of yore as our affordable housing policy, eh?
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