Opinion: San Diego doesn't need more high-end housing that is being envisioned [Opinion]
San Diego could OK far more high-rise homes and backyard apartments under a new city housing proposal
” : San Diego does not have a luxury housing shortage. “America’s Finest City” has a shortage of affordable housing. As long as San Diego’s for-profit developer donors are given carte blanche to build without oversight or proper foresight on what the future holds, the housing shortage will only get worse.
Expanding the transit walkability index from one half mile to one mile does not account for terrain, safety or schedules. Without upgrading vital transportation infrastructure and eliminating the for-profit component, in five to 10 years, we will have a surplus of expensive, empty buildings, for-lease signs at businesses who are unable to get customers to their restaurants due to lack of parking, and, sadly, still no viable public transit system.
Fool us once, shame on you, fool us twice, shame on us. We are the taxpayers/voters who hired the Mayor and City Council to work for us. Let San Diegans have a say on our future.In San Diego we way overbuild high-income housing, some of it left vacant by out-of-town and out-of-country speculators.
When there are multiple opportunities for middle income people to buy affordable, livable, high quality housing, they may stop buying low income housing and there will be more of that available for those with low incomes. Then people who can only pay $600, or $700 a month for housing do not need to end up on the street. It’s a beginning.
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