Gainesville in National news - A college town takes on exclusionary zoning

You need to get to Gainesville to see what is really happening. You apparently have no idea. There is still a student ghetto, but its being pushed further and further away from UF by developers buying up older, cheaper homes and building uber dense multi-story complexes which are then jacked up in price to be unaffordable to the avg student. This proposal will accelerate this process, further destroy the college town vibe Gainesville was once famous for, and disproportionately impact poor and black neighborhoods. What it absolutely won’t do is create affordable housing. It will create expensive housing, gentrification and forcing the poor further out from town putting more stress on transportation and parking systems.

 

Socialism run amuck.

 

can you imagine paying $1600 per month for a mediocre 1 br apartment? that is the Orlando market right now. is that okay or how would you propose to address it? It is going to continue to drive up homelessness.

 

Taxpayer subsidies are definitely needed. Maybe we can borrow it from China.

 

They don't need to subsidize in the traditional sense, just establish more enterprise zones and set up more tax incremental funding to offset the loss of revenue from reduced rent.