We just passed the first major land use update since 1987, it prioritizes affordable and infill housing and eliminated parking requirements in the downtown

Rental assistance is the way to achieve this, once people are stabilized and ready for permanent housing

Blood and Thunder by Hampton Sides

you know, light resume, like she's never pulled a gun on anyone

This is also great news for overall car weight and resource consumption. It takes a shit ton of batteries to make a giant car that fast.

It can be designed that way, Santa Fe’s original IZ program was like that

In my experience politicians like it because it’s a cost-neutral silver bullet housing solution that sticks it to the mythical greedy developer.

As in an anecdotal understanding with no recognition of the structural issue that drive homelessness like lack of housing supply and unwillingness to entertain solutions that include permanent housing as a solution.

Having worked for an elite dem politician, one who talks to Bass on homelessness issues regularly, I can at least say it not *always* the case. They think you can fix things with some new type of project, or new programmatic intervention and have no appetite or patience for systems level change.

It’s almost like the political elite doesn’t get it

oh yeah, that's garbage. Almost everyone in our project had some part time job and/or was an applied artist.

I only ended up getting involved in this type of work because I think it is easy to fuck up- namely ending up with higher income white artists in a lower income neighborhood. And I think we did a good job, but it wasn't easy.

ultimately it comes down to how you define "artist". We did extensive outreach to determine how to define that in Santa Fe and ended up with a very broad definition which included culinary artists, healing artists, people with traditional practices. It's about the need for a unique type of space.

Typically most smaller communities have ZERO affordable housing that's designed for the specific needs of artists. Artists also can be quite disruptive in more traditional affordable housing complexes- think loud/messy/noisy.

here's some observation independent of whatever BS NY is proposing. Affordable housing isn't hermetically sealed, when people move into an affordable unit, they free up other affordable or NOAH. Well designed affordable housing also provides design and amenities specific for artists.

These can be bad- but they’re not universally bad. I say that having developed one.

The standards have become so low