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Letters: Housing rules
East Bay Times Letters to the Editor for May 24, 2024
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Harming the housing market
After all, the rules are quite clear, that 25 per cent of all but the smallest housing projects must be affordable, so the bid by a developer to simply pay £600,000 instead of keeping ten of a 42-unit block on Henderson Place below normal market prices was pushing it. But with construction costs alone now around £280,000 a unit, there is not much which can be classed as “affordable” and conscious of the housing shortage, officers accepted the argument that the development was not viable with an...