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Denser housing is gaining traction on America’s east coast

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  1. Micycle_the_Bichael
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    As the article discusses, this is such a foreign concept to me as an American. I’ll be spending a good chunk of time reading about this. As far as local politics go, housing and public...

    A second bill, the Social Housing Act of 2020, would broadly fund and encourage the construction of new social housing statewide. This ambitious proposal could have enormous ramifications for the Old Line State. The fundamentals of his new bill are simple: publicly owned, permanently affordable, accessible homes, built with unionized labor, near public transit, and made available to a variety of income levels.

    As the article discusses, this is such a foreign concept to me as an American. I’ll be spending a good chunk of time reading about this. As far as local politics go, housing and public transportation are probably the two biggest issues I am focused on (larger scale I focus a lot on climate change and workers rights/poverty)

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