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Originally Posted by urbanlife
I would like to see Portland take the Vancouver BC approach that requires a percentage of affordable housing for incentives like added height and density, along with tax breaks.
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I mistakenly assumed this was already happening here. The apartments above Safeway on Jefferson were built with incentives that led to the inclusion of a number of affordable units, but that building was also part of other wheelings and dealings (and I mean that in a good way).
I wish the city did a better job of offering incentives to include some affordable units. Why not allow extra height in exchange for including 20% affordable units? Perhaps, allow an extra floor or two in exchange for each floor's-worth of affordable units - meaning, if the average floor in the building has 20 units, and the building has a total of 20 affordable units, allow an extra floor above the max height - or something to that effect. I'm really just thinking out loud here. There have to be all kinds of ways to incentivize the inclusion of some affordable units.
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