With the extremely high cost to build here, it seems government subsidies are needed.  The “Blueprint” suggests a 2% closing tax when expensive properties are sold to help fund affordable housing.  Is that a cost to make new owners pay for the past failures?

Isn’t it the people generating the need that should pay into an affordable housing fund? We have fees to require property owners to pay for just 30% of the cost of affordable housing needs generated by their new development or new use. Why just 30%?  And the cost is based on the cost of land and construction from 20 years ago and never updated!  Let’s require up to date data and formulas in our Blueprint.