Guest Editorial: We Need to Get Real About Affordable Housing

by Teresa MosquedaCity Council candidate Teresa Mosqueda says a 25% set-aside requirement for affordable housing is unrealistic. Courtesy of Teresa Mosqueda
On New Year’s Eve, our neighbor emailed to say she and her husband—a 91-year-old World War II veteran recently diagnosed with cancer—had to be out of their apartment by February. She worried about finding an affordable place in the neighborhood where they had lived for decades.
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