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Much of the recent debate has focused on reducing barriers to housing construction through a process called upzoning, or allowing developers to build more and more densely.
Authors: As policymakers continue to confront this crisis, it is time for them to reconsider an obvious but long-taboo solution: building new public housing.
They say public housing would guarantee affordable housing for people across income ranges.
The housing crisis is not just an economic crisis of economic and social crisis but also a housing crisis, authors say.
They say new investments in mixed-income, public housing can serve everyone who wants or needs it.
Vienna and Singapore offer long-standing models for social housing, with majority of population in comfortable, high-quality homes.
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