I think anyone who believes converting a suburban mall into successfully sustainable residential housing units doesn’t know what “affordable” means, but then I have decades of experience watching the federal government’s HUD program spend ridiculous sums of money.
If you watched their antics you would think that the taxpayers could afford anything. Doesn’t really matter what the bill is for the taxpayers.
I remember the exact year, it was 1992, that the feds with your tax dollars spent $120,000 On average on the small public housing units up the street from me. All of those units are much smaller than my house. That was the year we had $120,000 into my 2000 square-foot house as we were keeping track during our renovation. I couldn’t figure out what the actual FK they were spending money on, but it doesn’t really matter because spend money they did!!!.