Advocates use tricky math against housing abundance

Anti-poverty advocates are using some tricky math to push back on the “abundance” movement as a solution to housing affordability. A new report by the Center on Poverty and Inequality at Georgetown Law School says that in markets where developers built a lot of housing, rents for low-income units went up more than for other units. The researchers got their study featured in a New York Times article. But the actual rent increases might have been smaller than the report made them seem, and in the context of rising expenses, they should surprise absolutely no one. Nor are they an […] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.