How to Fix the Affordable Housing Gap

There is a campaign underway in Howard County Maryland to increase the supply of housing and make it more affordable.  Currently more than 50% of teachers, as an example,live elsewhere because they can’t afford to live in the county. Median homes price is more than$600,000. Median rent is $2100. Barriers: zoning, the stigma of affordable housing (even in a progressive county), layers of regulation, and slow progress on new construction. The county will have a new county executive after November. Housing activists have a playbook ready. My conversation is with Nikki Hig...