[quote=spdrun]I’m going to disagree about multifamily vs single-family. There are plenty of good and bad areas of both multifamily and single-family form.
A few years ago, I got lost in an area of Phoenix. All small single-families. I went to ask for directions and had someone kick the window of my rental car for my trouble. Apparently, the area was known for meth and other interesting drugs, but didn’t look “ghetto” at all.[/quote]I believe you spdrun. There are some SFR areas in SD which are “affordable” which I would not buy into cuz I wouldn’t want to live there or have a tenant there to “manage.” (I don’t mind going into those micro-areas to see friends or attend backyard BBQs or celebrations, etc, though.)
I just think some previously wonderful SD neighborhoods full of SFR gems (even “Historical), such as North Park, have been ruined beginning in about ’89 when the City Council “upzoned” certain streets allowing old homes to be razed and 4-8 units built in their place. Some of those particular streets were too narrow for all this extra “activity.”
It appears that the bulk of the “state street” area up to about one block north of the city pool and velodrome has been preserved, for the most part. North Park was one of SD’s jewels and it didn’t need to be ruined with nondescript multi-family dwellings … some of it undoubtedly accepting Section 8 vouchers.
SD doesn’t owe “low-income tenants” adequate housing in desirable “uptown” locations, such as North Park. That’s why we have El Cajon valley :=0. Low-income tenants can eventually work themselves off section 8 and eventually rent/buy a place in a more desirable county location if they so desire.
