They might add that imposing a 50% affordable requirement will only deter such investment and, indeed, housing investment of all kinds.
An issue raised by a 50% affordable requirement, the minimum set out by Khan for the Kidbrooke site, is that TfL will get less from the development of the land in this way than they would have were the "affordable" proportion lower.
Developers who successfully argue that a council's affordable housing requirements make a project "commercially unviable" will see the requirements removed.
"This government has consistently and repeatedly watered down affordable housing requirements, depriving local communities of badly needed affordable homes".
While not exactly a past champion of affordable housing requirements, Mr. Doria has not opposed them either.
With the goal of creating as many as 10,000 apartments, the city began waiving affordable housing requirements in 2004.
As mayor of the South Jersey suburb of Cherry Hill, Ms. Levin fought affordable housing requirements, and advocates believe she never really changed her views after taking the state job.
Barangaroo lies within the boundaries of Sydney city council, whose planning laws include rigorous environmental impact studies, tender processes, limits on building heights, trade-offs on design for the public good and affordable housing requirements.
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