I am attending this event. Social housing is middle income AND affordable housing. We need this in high opportunity towns like Boulder.

Project size: 6,000 sq. ft. CIL would increase the cost of the three market rate 1,500 sq. ft. units by $45,780 each.

Project size: 7,200 sq. ft. CIL would increase the cost of the three market rate 1,800 sq. ft. units by $70,056 each.

For small projects—a three story quad, equal sized units:

Project size: 4,000 sq. ft. IH required cash increases the cost of the three market rate 1,000 sq. ft. units by $20,453 each.

In Boulder, 25% of new homes must be permanently affordable. Here's what that means:

Another drag that suppresses the building of middle income housing are Inclusionary Zoning or Inclusionary Housing requirements that subsidize low income housing by an exaction on market rate homes. In Boulder, 25% of new homes must be permanently affordable.

I wish there were a way to ID the photos, so we here in BlueSkylandia (I am in Boulder) could add these as examples to our arsenal in support of housing, and maybe even get hold of the photos.

You have it just right. Make urban places more urban to keep rural and wild areas rural and wild!!

I love this book. It goes with me to Hawaii for 8 days!

Eric, please add BHN to the starter pack. And thank you for creating it.

I agree, but re housing. We support density in cities to make cities more urban so that wild places can retain their wildness, without encroachment from suburbs and exurbs.