Is this worth all the time staff puts into crafting and administering these programs? Is it worth all of the projects that don't get built in walkable and transit-rich neighborhoods?
It's hard to know exactly how many affordable units AU produces annually relative to the counterfactual of "same dollars without AU" but it's likely on the same order as affordable units produced through the DB's that go for for-profit devs combined.
Agreed. And I would assume SMART's "multiplier" is pretty low since it just offers permit/fee waivers. Didn't stop them from saying "The S.M.A.R.T. Housing program has generated the most affordable units of any program by a wide margin" though
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