Hi Sean. I don't think we know each other but it looks like we live in the same community. I'd be happy to meet up and talk more. My firm definitely works with developers (both for-profit and nonprofit). We also work closely with local units of government, nonprofit service providers, and philanthropy. Nothing to hide here and I'm happy to chat more if you're interested.
Thank you for both the response and offer. I will respectfully decline a meeting: based on your writings I feel I have a clear picture of your outlook.
The reason for my reply was that this post is being shared locally as being much more objective than it is. Agreed, the information I linked was clearly publicly available, but no where in the article does it reveal those connections.
While I do work with developers on a very regular basis, my work is rarely funded by developers. More than 95% of our funding comes from local community organizations, cities, counties, economic development agencies, and philanthropy.
Our goal is to be clear-eyed about how regional economics impact housing affordability and to use the tools that are available to us to make meaningful change.
In the current environment, the vast majority of housing is built by developers. So, we work with developers. But our first priority is to make housing more affordable for everyone in the most efficient way possible. And a secondary priority is to put more economic power in the hands of homeowners and local mom-and-pop property owners by making it possible for them to build and finance small-scale housing. Hopefully, at some point we can talk more about why we believe in these things and how our work supports these goals.
In my view in a free market, free enterprise, free society there is no room for government planning boards to intervene against the decisions of private land owners and private developers. This was the case for most of the history of the US. In consequence median home prices remained at the low 2X multiple of median incomes. It is just such conditions that allowed the Levitt brothers to quickly build 17,000 homes on LI in the 1940s, homes which sold at the same low 2X median income as the rest of the country. Five decades of intervention by government planning boards has driven up the median price of a home in Levittown to 5X median income - approaching the point where median income households can't get a mortgage. Bottom line: Abolish government planning boards, problem solved.
preach!!!
Gaslighting from someone who is paid to push developer's interests. https://www.housingnext.org/team/ryan-kilpatrick The "who we work with" section tells you everything you need to know about the motivation behind this post: https://www.housingnext.org/about
Hi Sean. I don't think we know each other but it looks like we live in the same community. I'd be happy to meet up and talk more. My firm definitely works with developers (both for-profit and nonprofit). We also work closely with local units of government, nonprofit service providers, and philanthropy. Nothing to hide here and I'm happy to chat more if you're interested.
Thank you for both the response and offer. I will respectfully decline a meeting: based on your writings I feel I have a clear picture of your outlook.
The reason for my reply was that this post is being shared locally as being much more objective than it is. Agreed, the information I linked was clearly publicly available, but no where in the article does it reveal those connections.
Ok. The offer stands any time.
While I do work with developers on a very regular basis, my work is rarely funded by developers. More than 95% of our funding comes from local community organizations, cities, counties, economic development agencies, and philanthropy.
Our goal is to be clear-eyed about how regional economics impact housing affordability and to use the tools that are available to us to make meaningful change.
In the current environment, the vast majority of housing is built by developers. So, we work with developers. But our first priority is to make housing more affordable for everyone in the most efficient way possible. And a secondary priority is to put more economic power in the hands of homeowners and local mom-and-pop property owners by making it possible for them to build and finance small-scale housing. Hopefully, at some point we can talk more about why we believe in these things and how our work supports these goals.
Sean, who exactly built your home and neighborhood? A dreaded developer I presume…
In my view in a free market, free enterprise, free society there is no room for government planning boards to intervene against the decisions of private land owners and private developers. This was the case for most of the history of the US. In consequence median home prices remained at the low 2X multiple of median incomes. It is just such conditions that allowed the Levitt brothers to quickly build 17,000 homes on LI in the 1940s, homes which sold at the same low 2X median income as the rest of the country. Five decades of intervention by government planning boards has driven up the median price of a home in Levittown to 5X median income - approaching the point where median income households can't get a mortgage. Bottom line: Abolish government planning boards, problem solved.