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The Fairy Godmother of Affordable Housing

by Andy Caldwell

Feb 11, 2024
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Artwork Courtesy of Ross Mayfield

County Supervisor Laura Capps believes she has found “the silver bullet” for affordable housing in the south county. Her not-so-brilliant plan is to use the land the county owns to build affordable housing, thereby eliminating the land costs of the housing, by way of a donation I presume. Yet, the vast bulk of the land t…

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