Good for the Liberal Party. Though I'm not sure it would have been wise for Kamala Harris to champion "public housing" and get labeled an evil "socialist" by Republicans. But if she runs for governor of CA (California, not Canada), that's a race where Harris could champion a public sector body similar to what was proposed in Carney's platform. I actually like Singapore's successful Housing Development Board and its model of home (mainly apt) ownership, but that's a topic for another day.
That's a good point. She would've had to thread the needle, emphasizing public-private partnerships and mixed-income development, really differentiating whatever she was proposing from people's negative associations with public housing.
"In many European and East Asian countries, public development corporations have become significant real estate players. By developing large numbers of homes on public land, often in architecturally striking complexes closely linked to public transit, these agencies can shape the overall housing market and lower average prices."
Yes, I think this is closer to the inspiration for Canada's program. Unlike America's cultural inability to learn from anyone else, Canada and especially someone like Carney can and has. You linked to your Clichy-Batignolles article which is fair enough. I would also point to Jonah Freemark's informed analysis of how Paris and Greater Paris has avoided the worst that has afflicted its peer cities of London and NYC. Essentially building social housing. Also Mayor Hidalgo's programs to spend billions buying existing Paris apartments (at market prices, don't freak out American readers!) then to be rent out at affordable rents to working Parisians like police, teachers, nurses etc so that those who have to work in Paris can actually live in Paris, simultaneously avoiding the total gentrification of the city.
Doubling housing production in the Paris region: a multi-policy, multi-jurisdictional response
Yonah Freemark, 19 Dec 2019
ABSTRACT
How can metropolitan regions ramp up housing production to meet the demands of a growing population, after years of inadequate construction and mounting challenges for affordability? I consider recent policy reforms in the Paris region that have successfully doubled that area’s housing-unit completion rate. I show that a focus on social housing, harnessing of publicly owned land, new financial and regulatory incentives, and the enforcement of municipal policy by higher level governments have effectively encouraged development.
The first approach—providing additional permanently affordable units— counters declining per-capita government support for subsidised units, a trend in countries such as the UK and US (Scalon, Whitehead, & Arrigoitia, 2014; Vale & Freemark, 2019), and addresses lower income family needs.
These policies had a real impact. First, a large share (31%) of all units built between 2011 and 2017 were social (Poncelet et al., 2018). Second, more were built; in 2017, 30,183 social-housing units were completed, compared with 13,219 in 2003—the contemporary nadir (Prefet d’Île-de-France, 2018c). Third, cities concerned by the SRU increased social-housing shares from 13.2 to 15.9% on average between 2002 and 2011 (Cour des comptes, 2015). The city of Paris, fulfilling the ambitions of socialist councils, took the goal particularly seriously, funding 100,000 units from 2001 to 2019 and increasing the permanently affordable share of units from 13.4 to an estimated 22.2% between 2001 and 2020 (Paris, 2019). This broad increase in social-housing construction contrasts dramatically with global trends of privatisation and reduced social support (Fields & Hodkinson, 2018).
Good for the Liberal Party. Though I'm not sure it would have been wise for Kamala Harris to champion "public housing" and get labeled an evil "socialist" by Republicans. But if she runs for governor of CA (California, not Canada), that's a race where Harris could champion a public sector body similar to what was proposed in Carney's platform. I actually like Singapore's successful Housing Development Board and its model of home (mainly apt) ownership, but that's a topic for another day.
That's a good point. She would've had to thread the needle, emphasizing public-private partnerships and mixed-income development, really differentiating whatever she was proposing from people's negative associations with public housing.
"In many European and East Asian countries, public development corporations have become significant real estate players. By developing large numbers of homes on public land, often in architecturally striking complexes closely linked to public transit, these agencies can shape the overall housing market and lower average prices."
Yes, I think this is closer to the inspiration for Canada's program. Unlike America's cultural inability to learn from anyone else, Canada and especially someone like Carney can and has. You linked to your Clichy-Batignolles article which is fair enough. I would also point to Jonah Freemark's informed analysis of how Paris and Greater Paris has avoided the worst that has afflicted its peer cities of London and NYC. Essentially building social housing. Also Mayor Hidalgo's programs to spend billions buying existing Paris apartments (at market prices, don't freak out American readers!) then to be rent out at affordable rents to working Parisians like police, teachers, nurses etc so that those who have to work in Paris can actually live in Paris, simultaneously avoiding the total gentrification of the city.
https://projections.pubpub.org/pub/3kq6u3x4/release/1
Metropolis on the water: Varieties of development logics along the Seine
by Yonah Freemark, Dec 20, 2019
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19491247.2019.1682233
Doubling housing production in the Paris region: a multi-policy, multi-jurisdictional response
Yonah Freemark, 19 Dec 2019
ABSTRACT
How can metropolitan regions ramp up housing production to meet the demands of a growing population, after years of inadequate construction and mounting challenges for affordability? I consider recent policy reforms in the Paris region that have successfully doubled that area’s housing-unit completion rate. I show that a focus on social housing, harnessing of publicly owned land, new financial and regulatory incentives, and the enforcement of municipal policy by higher level governments have effectively encouraged development.
The first approach—providing additional permanently affordable units— counters declining per-capita government support for subsidised units, a trend in countries such as the UK and US (Scalon, Whitehead, & Arrigoitia, 2014; Vale & Freemark, 2019), and addresses lower income family needs.
These policies had a real impact. First, a large share (31%) of all units built between 2011 and 2017 were social (Poncelet et al., 2018). Second, more were built; in 2017, 30,183 social-housing units were completed, compared with 13,219 in 2003—the contemporary nadir (Prefet d’Île-de-France, 2018c). Third, cities concerned by the SRU increased social-housing shares from 13.2 to 15.9% on average between 2002 and 2011 (Cour des comptes, 2015). The city of Paris, fulfilling the ambitions of socialist councils, took the goal particularly seriously, funding 100,000 units from 2001 to 2019 and increasing the permanently affordable share of units from 13.4 to an estimated 22.2% between 2001 and 2020 (Paris, 2019). This broad increase in social-housing construction contrasts dramatically with global trends of privatisation and reduced social support (Fields & Hodkinson, 2018).
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