When will the statists get it through their neutron star dense heads that the way to get a higher quantity of lower cost housing is to reduce regulation and relax zoning.

Those sub market priced apartments are being paid for by someone, namely the other tenants in the building.

Seattle doesn’t get it either. They changed the zoning law to outlaw market based low cost micro apartments. In the process they got fewer numbers of units at higher rents, and the “affordable” ones are now costing taxpayers via subsidies. Lets see….what to choose, what to choose? More, lower rent apartments that cost zero taxpayer dollars to be affordable or fewer, higher rent apartments that cost taxpayers a boatload to subsidize? Lets choose the latter, since we can virtue signal about “helping”.