Queen City’s Affordable Housing Battle Royal
If you think proposals to cram so-called affordable housing into Ballantyne, and now Ayrsley, sparked a firestorm of controversy and gnashing of teeth, just wait until the Democrat-controlled city council’s pitch for inclusionary zoning, currently weaving its way through the council’s housing and neighborhood development and transportation committees, hits the fan.
Despite the at-best mixed results inclusionary zoning has produced in cities across the country, and the at-worst wholesale failures its mandates have wreaked on the general housing market, do not be surprised to see Charlotte head down the same path. It is the affordable housing battle royal looming on the horizon, with the potential to leave a trail of casualties in its wake and make the Ballantyne and Ayrsley disputes look like minor skirmishes.
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