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= Contemporary proposals =
[[File:Peoples-Policy-Project--Social-Housing-report-cover-2018.jpg|thumb|right|500px|PPP]]▼
== SF YIMBY proposal for mixed-income public housing (2017- ) ==
see [Trauss 2018a], [Trauss 2018b].
In "[https://medium.com/@LocalPolitics/decommodified-housing-plan-6e298d4ed80b DeCommodified Housing plan]" (Jul 9 2019), Sonja Trauss writes:
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"A large decommodified housing sector is possible in the US because of two facts:
(1) Mixed income housing developments almost always do not need subsidy as long as the land is free, and usually even be revenue positive.<br/> (2) local governments own tons of underutilized land.
<u>Underutilized land</u>
"Your school district, public library, transportation agency, public utility, city government all own parcels of land in your city or town. A few of those might be vacant. Most of them are in use, but the use is probably a one or maybe two storey building surrounded by a parking lot.
"These parcels could have the existing use, PLUS 8–10 storeys of housing on top.
"A new tall building, sounds expensive to build! Who will pay?
"The costs of construction will be recovered the same way they always are — through the rents. Decommodified housing doesn’t mean free housing. The people who live there will still pay rent. They will get the housing they need and pay the amount they can afford. What this means is that a family making $60,000/ yr. could pay $12,000/ yr in rent, and a family making $150,000/ yr could pay $30,000 / yr (this is 20% of gross income which is much less than the 33% that US governments, since the 1980s, have claimed was “affordable”. You might have to adjust for your town.)
"One of the great things about having a public agency develop its own land for mixed income, revenue neutral (or positive), decommodified housing is that public agencies generally have access to cheap money. In other words, public agencies can borrow money to build these housing developments at relatively low rates by selling municipal bonds."
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= People's Policy Project social housing proposal (2018) =▼
▲== People's Policy Project social housing proposal (2018) ==
In April 5, 2018, the People's Policy Project (founded by writer Matt Breunig) released "[https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2018/04/05/a-plan-to-solve-the-housing-crisis-through-social-housing/ A Plan to Solve the Housing Crisis Through Social Housing]," authored by Irish political organizer Peter Gowan and New York-based journalist Ryan Cooper. [Gowan 2018].
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[[File:A-National-Homes-Guarantee-Briefing-Book-2019.jpg|thumb|right|500px|A National Homes Guarantee, Briefing Book (Sept 2019)]]
== Homes Guarantee initiative from People's Action (2019) ==
"For decades, tenants, residents of public and subsidized housing, and people experiencing homelessness have been organizing to protect their rights and win structural reforms, in and across cities, suburbs, and small towns, all over the country. People’s Action has a long history of driving visionary housing policy. Our members, along with movement partners, have won landmark reforms like the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (1975), Community Reinvestment Act (1977), Dodd-Frank (2010), and much more at the state and local levels.
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= References =
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*Trauss, Sonja [2018]. "Socialism is here, if you want it." [https://twitter.com/SonjaTrauss/status/970825100294533121?s=20 Tweet, Mar 5, 2018, 4:55pm]. (referencing [Trauss 2018b] below). <br/>
*Trauss, Sonja [2018b]. Description of mixed-income social housing on San Francisco public land. Tweet, Mar 5, 2018. <br/> [https://twitter.com/SonjaTrauss/status/970821176296534016?s=20 https://twitter.com/SonjaTrauss/status/970821176296534016?s=20].<br/>
*Trauss, Sonja. (@LocalPolitics on Medium). "[https://medium.com/@LocalPolitics/decommodified-housing-plan-6e298d4ed80b DeCommodified Housing plan]." Medium, Jul 9 2019.<br/> [https://medium.com/@LocalPolitics/decommodified-housing-plan-6e298d4ed80b. https://medium.com/@LocalPolitics/decommodified-housing-plan-6e298d4ed80b. ]<br/>
*UK House of Commons. short history of over a century of social housing from the House of Commons Library. [http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/olympic-britain/housing-and-home-life/build-it-up-sell-it-off/ http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/research/olympic-britain/housing-and-home-life/build-it-up-sell-it-off/].<br/>
*Vale, Lawrence J.. ''From the Puritans to the Projects: Public Housing and Public Neighbors.'' (Harvard University Press, 2007).<br/>
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