Makes me think of "Land - it's the only thing that matters, it's the only thing that lasts" or something of that sort, from Gone with the Wind. More people are coming and want to come, yet, last time we checked, raw land isn't being made at a particularly rapid clip. The Burbank homes at DeTurk, and others, around Sonoma County, are just such innovative and exciting examples of what can be done. Yet, as I understand it (Pleeease do correct me if I'm wrong) these homes only stay in the "affordable" range for a set period of years. So, at some point they can be sold by their owners at full market value, even though they were obtained with government assistance of some kind. This, again, creates a need for new affordable housing supply over and over. And where is the land coming from for this? So tough! Are there communities that have placed continuing resale restrictions on housing classified as "affordable?" Where the need to create new affordable housing is lessened by the retention of the current supply in the range of "affordable?" Housing is clearly a place where capitalism has failed and where many types of government assistance (from shelters to aid to grants to tax breaks and more) has not provided a simple roof over the heads of all in our country who wish it. Obviously if I was clear on the solution I'd be working to see it done...but I think, like many, I'm vexed by this problem... Susan