.......as someone who has developed, built, rehabbed several thousand living units (apts, condos, duplex’s, single family homes), I can tell you that the elephant in the room on this subject is government and people like the authors of this article are nothing less than fraudsters by arguing “affordable housing”. It doesn’t exist and will never exist because government, in all it’s forms and activities, is responsible for 50 % of costs.
The ONLY “affordable” housing, in my opinion would be a concrete floor metal building divided into cubicles with a common bathroom and kitchen/dining.
Even for that concept to succeed, each group of such buildings would require/demand two, big strong, 6’, 4”, 225lb fearless guys walking around 24/7 to maintain order and keep the inhabitants from trashing the building, peeing on the floors, crapping on the floors and raping each other to say nothing of illegal drug use.
Until fraudsters like the authors of this article finally decide to have a serious/honest discussion of the problem nothing conclusive is going to happen.
I have had 18 dogs since 1966 when I bought my first house—1-2-3 at a time.
ALL my dogs behaved better than any homeless person out there.