“Letter: All neighborhoods can benefit from opportunities for more housing”

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Check out “Letter: All neighborhoods can benefit from opportunities for more housing” at Mountain Xpress:

A four-county Asheville Regional Housing Needs Assessment, unveiled in August, reported that Asheville needs to add 11,000 homes in just the next five years. This won’t happen without updates to the city’s zoning code, which fosters housing scarcity by design. That scarcity is the prime driver of what the city terms “economic displacement,” which is when residents can’t live here anymore due to rising rents.

So how can Asheville meet these needs when even small proposed zoning changes lead to outsized fear and backlash? . . .

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