Community councils should not stand in the way of the proposed Affordable Housing Overlay, writes Brint Novinska-Lois, a second year master’s student in the Department of City and Metropolitan Planning at the University of Utah.
Likewise, lower property values translate into a weaker tax base, diminishing a neighborhood’s capacity to attract and sustain business investments or receive adequate governmental funding for basic services. After all, investment, either public or private, begets investment.
Housing prices would become more affordable in the “best” areas of Salt Lake City if there is more housing via higher densities, called for by the city’s proposed. Additionally, denser housing doesn’t necessitate more cars. With higher density housing comes communities that are gradually redesigned to be hospitable to walking and biking over car ownership and driving.
To boot, high-density housing developments not only improve human health, but are environmentally sustainable in other ways, as they are more energy efficient and use less resources per person. The city could also utilize some of this extra space for public parks, as opposed to the secluded and wasteful nature of the single-family lawn. Talk about decreasing the carbon footprint!
The bottom line is that I can no longer stand idly by while at least 74,112 of my neighbors are deprived of the right to economic and social mobility. Increasing housing could make this good city a great one, as concentrating the population around vital resources and opportunities may elevate economic productivity, human health, and social well-being over time, especially for marginalized people. We have the tools and demand to do it.
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