Boulder's experience with inclusionary housing provides a glimpse of how such mandates can play an important role when a city sees housing prices blow past working-class incomes as has happened in Denver over the last 15 years.
While time is money, it is imperative that even in the face of our housing shortage, we don’t capitulate to the whims of a builder for the sake of expediency.
Delays in the development-review process carry enormous costs for developers and add to housing costs, with local municipalities’ efforts to shorten review times exacerbated by staffing shortages.
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