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How to kill affordable housing: review it forever

Everyone says they want worker housing. The trick is to review it, workshop it, and “get it right” until it quietly dies on the vine.

Jason Weisberger
Mar 06, 2026
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Celebrity chef Thomas Keller showed up at a town council meeting in Yountville, California, this week to insist he supports affordable housing… just not this plan, and not this design, and not this budget, and not without yet another, and another, and another round of meetings, surveys, and revisions.

Restaurateur and celebra…

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