What type of development would you like to see replace Smith’s Ballpark? That’s why Seattle voters passed an initiative requiring nonmarket housing and why 80%-plus of Singaporeans own affordable homes. Millions of people throughout the world are affordably housed in nonmarket housing. Instead, the city or a nonprofit developer should build beautifully designed, mixed-income, nonmarket, permanently affordable housing, where rents and sale prices will be much lower because the profit margin is eliminated and because the city will maintain low rents and sale prices, regardless of the ever-increasing market. The city should end the subsidies of many millions for profit-driven developers who have built mostly architecturally awful, unaffordable, family-unfriendly (studios and one-bedroom) housing throughout our city. The way out of the Salt Lake City affordability crisis, which has become much worse these past four years, is to take profit out of housing subsidized by the city. Truly affordable housing at all income levels is a crucial public need. If elected, what would you do to ensure middle-income Utahns who want to buy a home in Salt Lake City will be able to do so? Occupation: Presently, full-time mayoral candidate previously, lawyer (primarily commercial and civil rights litigation).
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