Affordable housing has been a big issue in Ithaca and around the rest of the country. Ithaca is now proposing a new incentive program for developers to commit to building more affordable housing (from the Ithaca Voice):
http://ithacavoice.com/2016/03/ithac...dable-housing/
While this has been tried in many places, I did run across an article ref: a California study (a state where affordable housing is in dire need) which contradicts the incentive programs in favor of market rate development:
http://www.spur.org/news/2016-02-18/...ome-households
I don't really know which is best, but I do know the old hometown has recently been putting developers thru hell to try and get projects into the approved for moving forward queue, and thus making it discouraging to add any units to the housing supply.
