https://archive.ph/QqKFu
"Paris, ranked among the world’s most expensive cities to reside in various
surveys, might not make the most obvious of role models for housing
affordability policies.
But after succeeding in making 25% of its accommodation accessible to people on
lower incomes by the end of last year, the French capital has set a target of
lifting that to 40% by 2035. That means a major expansion of public housing so
that homes for low-income tenants make up 30% of all units with an additional
10% comprising below-market rate abodes for middle-income tenants, Paris
Housing Commissioner Ian Brossat told French media on Sunday.
It’s an ambitious vision given the scale of the challenge. Rents have continued
to rise throughout the two decades or so since the City of Paris municipality
set its first target, while the authorities preside over just the 2.1 million
resident central nucleus of Greater Paris’s 14 million-strong
metropolitan area. The latest goal also presents another problem: how to find
space for thousands of new public housing units in what is already a
hyper-dense urban area."
Via
Future Crunch issue 191:
https://futurecrunch.com/
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
