I don't agree that "affordable housing" technically means "subsidized and deed-restricted low-income housing." I don't even know where that supposed technicality would come from. Otherwise "naturally affordable housing" would be an oxymoron.
More to the point, unless you think the California legislature and all of the staffers are complete idiots, the California legislature also doesn't agree on that definition, or they would have written the legislation differently. The judge in the SB 9 case operated in the baddest of bad faith, as NIMBYs frequently do.
There's no universal definition codified in law, but generally speaking that is its technical definition as used among housing policy experts and officials. The fact that its not a clear and universal definition is why i think the term should be abolished.
I don't agree that "affordable housing" technically means "subsidized and deed-restricted low-income housing." I don't even know where that supposed technicality would come from. Otherwise "naturally affordable housing" would be an oxymoron.
More to the point, unless you think the California legislature and all of the staffers are complete idiots, the California legislature also doesn't agree on that definition, or they would have written the legislation differently. The judge in the SB 9 case operated in the baddest of bad faith, as NIMBYs frequently do.
There's no universal definition codified in law, but generally speaking that is its technical definition as used among housing policy experts and officials. The fact that its not a clear and universal definition is why i think the term should be abolished.