{"id":828,"date":"2024-11-23T01:46:14","date_gmt":"2024-11-23T01:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/?p=828"},"modified":"2025-01-06T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T20:30:00","slug":"press-release-and-new-report-from-auditors-office-on-inclusionary-zoning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dc4reality.org\/updates\/828","title":{"rendered":"PRESS RELEASE AND NEW REPORT FROM AUDITOR’S OFFICE ON INCLUSIONARY ZONING"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This November 20, 2024, report by the Office of the Auditor<\/a> on DC’s Inclusionary Zoning program<\/b> is an indictment of the Smart Growth urbanists who say that building more luxury housing with a required handful of IZ units would be an answer to our unaffordable housing crisis.\u00a0 The numbers in the official report below show quite the opposite.<\/span><\/div>\n
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WE NEED AN ALTERNATIVE<\/a> THAT DECOMODIFIES HOUSING AND AFFIRMS THAT HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT!
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Part of the IZ failure<\/a><\/b> is because the so-called YIMBY urbanist originators<\/a> of this alleged “affordable” housing policy chose to never highlight the lack of accountability and enforcement of their developer real estate friends in any of their testimony to the Zoning Commission and to the Council over the years.
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For more than a decade now, IZ has been used as the soapbox for YIMBYs to cheer on upzoning such as at 1617 U Street.\u00a0 IZ has been the guise for luxury overdevelopment since 2009 and destroyed affordability in the District by setting the definition of “affordable housing” so high as to be out of reach of most working people and families<\/a><\/b> in our city.
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