[hedgetrimmer]

"I will guarantee you that if there was any effort to provide affordable housing cost shifted is the correct term, through higher density, there would be a (housing) rush like you wouldn't believe," he (Perata) said.

Every one of the smart growth affordable homes require that someone else buying into the development pay more that than their home is worth to shift the cost from the so called low invome buyer to someone else "who can afford it". It is classic wealth redistribution, soviet style, from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

The smart growth planners and politicians talk about housing needs all the time, and they mean to each according to his need when they say it.

[SierraWasp]

"from each according to his ability, to each according to his need."

Sounds almost like some sort of "manifesto" struggling to recover from "the ash-heap of history!"