Former SJ D10 Charter Review commissioner Tobin Gilman scrutinizes the City and County's plan to make housing more cost-effective: by raising property owners' taxes (median of $1,250/month in SJ), via a $10–20 million regional bond. Bond funding would then go to counties for “building affordable housing.” But does it really make sense, asks Gilman on Medium, to make housing less affordable for one group in order to subsidize affordable housing for another?

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