The city also noted how in 2015 it retained an independent housing expert to identify other affordable-housing sites, all of which were outside the Beach and Edinger Corridors Specific Plan area.
Not every housing expert agrees.
A London housing expert I spoke to recently said the thought the 106 model was "dead".
Housing expert Henry Pryor said it would stoke demand and house prices in London.
A local housing expert said he had paid more than €1m for the house, then spent a fortune on it.
It was also condemned as "counter-intuitive and dangerous" by Professor David Robinson, a housing expert from Sheffield Hallam University.
"It was like in a play — the facade of a reconstruction project," said Priscilla Phelps, an American consultant who served as the commission's housing expert.
"You've got to make it easier to build stuff," said Howard A. Husock, a housing expert at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
"The securitization markets are dead," said Robert J. Shiller, the Yale University economist and housing expert who predicted the subprime collapse.
I must declare up front: I'm not a housing expert or an ageing society expert, but I do know the numbers.
So for Professor Danny Dorling, an Oxford University housing expert, haggling with developers to build cheap homes is "nasty planning" and should be abandoned.
