Mayor's Plan to Build 5,000 Affordable Units by 2030

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Mayor pledges to create 5,000 new, affordable Lincoln housing units in next decade

Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird on Tuesday pledged to muster city powers to help create 5,000 units of affordable housing in the city over the next decade.

In her second State of the City address, Gaylor Baird said her administration will act on the city's coordinated affordable housing action plan, which projects Lincoln will need 5,000 units that rent for less than $1,000 monthly for lower income renters by 2030.

"We already have incentivized redevelopment projects that, as we speak, are creating 144 affordable housing units, and are providing more options for families with the use of housing vouchers," Gaylor Baird said in the virtual address.

Her administration will help developers build new and rehabilitate existing housing to meet the goal, she said.

That's a lot of affordable housing units, although it's interest that $1,000 is the cut off. That would mean some of the new apartment studios being built in Omaha that are less than $1,000 are considered affordable housing. I hope Omaha's next mayor has a comprehensive plan to incentivize affordable housing.

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To me anything over $1/sqft is unnecessary. Can someone please just build some really affordable apartments? $1,000 for a studio is NOT affordable.

I guess they might not specify what the size of the unit would be. S1,000 would be affordable for a 2 bed.

[Busguy2010]

In my recent searches for affordable housing, I came across a street in North Omaha, kinda near the 75 north thing. There was a nice string of small houses of ~ 800 sqft or less that were built in the early 1890's. Some of the oldest houses in Omaha still standing I reckon. All built like two feet from each other. Gives a bit of perspective as to what we should be looking for in a functional living space. I would prefer to see a district of small houses like this sold at appropriate prices vs a bunch of over priced apartment buildings.