By Laura Wenus, Mission Local
Every time the words “affordable housing” are used in local media, commenters appear and argue about the phrase. Either they are frustrated that, in a region where someone thinks it’s OK to charge people $800 a night to sleep on the floor, nothing is really “affordable.” Or they are angry that we use the term in reference to city-administered, below-market-rate units with costs subsidized by taxpayer and bond money. (In some cases, as I was reminded this week, very heavily.) Both angles on this usually result in the question: “Affordable to whom?”
Not to teachers, that’s for sure.
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