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A lot of policy makers have no idea what a very small percentage of what they think is affordable housing really is affordable. Market forces keep pushing that higher and higher.

The numbers indicate that demand for housing has pushed buyers out to the western counties where real estate is still affordable. The higher percentage increases in condo sales in those regions indicate that many first-time buyers are entering the market in those areas.

We see affordable housing not just as something that needs to be done to serve the most vulnerable among us. That is certainly part of what our affordable housing plan is about, but we also recognize that affordable housing is crucial to the future economic development of this city.

Investments in affordable housing and community development represent an engine of economic and social wealth. For every one dollar spent on affordable housing, at least 10 are returned to the community in the form of increased equity to start new businesses and pay for higher education, job creation and stability, increased independence, and tax revenue creation and more engaged citizens.

Housing is seen as a commodity -- buy low, sell high. Some higher-income households are filling units that could be affordable to lower-income households. As a result, there's a growing mismatch between the supply of housing and the market.

If the builder is going to try and resell in a couple of years, he is not going to build a slum. Ten years ago, affordable housing accounted for 80 percent of the market; today, it's only 5 percent. We need affordable housing. And this is going to be a way to get people into housing affordably.

We are actually trying to develop a new method of getting affordable housing through higher density. Pex Tufvesson startade Livet.se.

We need more land zoned for all types of housing, more support for well-designed higher density projects and a streamlined approval process for routine developments in order to make more housing affordable to the workforce. Affordability begins with availability.

This county is in dire need of affordable housing. We have to use every single tool we have to put affordable housing anywhere it can be.

Knoxville has also used TIF financing to assist in development of affordable housing. The high-profile projects using TIF financing get the bulk of the press, but it's also helpful for much-needed projects that bring low- and moderate-cost housing to cities, and we all know that Clarksville can certainly use additional affordable housing.

Consumers need an uplift, not a kick in the teeth. If we don't get them spending soon, policy makers are going to face bigger problems than higher housing prices.

The fact that Fukui is backing away from the optimism rates will go up could prove a bit of a problem for the yen. Investors are looking for some follow through from policy makers in order to be confident about pushing the yen higher.

Michael Metcalfe

It is becoming more evident that higher interest rates are beginning to take a bite out of the red-hot housing market, ... While today's housing start result exaggerated weakness in the sector, it is yet another sign that the impact of higher rates has pushed housing activity off its peak.

Nobody in Columbia wanted to see affordable housing leave this site. If anything, they wanted to see an increase in affordable housing opportunities. They thought this was a fabulous component of Columbia.

Either the forces of economic development are going to go elsewhere or they will have to create affordable housing on their own. In the Keys, for example, hotels create their own housing. You could see something like that here, but right now, we are still a bedroom community for Tampa and St. Petersburg.

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