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🗓️ 13 February 2023
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In this clip we discuss low and middle income housing and how its a profitable business.
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0:00.0 | So let me ask you this because you're still a business man and you're into make money right so when you're doing these projects and |
0:07.9 | 50% |
0:09.2 | Of the housing is going to low or middle income or you just talked about where you can buy in this |
0:16.3 | Basel for your income |
0:17.9 | So how you make it money off of this the city gives you subsidies |
0:23.4 | To subsidize the price or like if somebody should be paying 4,000 |
0:27.5 | But they're only paying 1,000 is the city subsidized? |
0:30.8 | Absolutely 3000 dollars absolutely. So what happened is you there's two types of subsidies capital subsidy and there's rental subsidy |
0:37.1 | so |
0:38.0 | So capital subsidy works like this like you know we're doing a development and |
0:43.4 | It costs 10 million to do the development right |
0:47.0 | But that development can only support 6 million of |
0:49.6 | Of debt or 6 million of capital because of the depressed costs the city's gonna put in the additional subsidy |
0:56.9 | It's a very simplistic way to look at it. That's kind of how it works and how we get paid is when you create that |
1:02.5 | That budget our fees part of the budget. So it's like it's right is baked right in so it's like a building cost 10 million |
1:09.6 | You have 6 million the city will put the other 4 million in for you |
1:13.5 | But for them putting 4 million in for you |
1:16.1 | They're gonna say we need 30% of the market rate. So then the math it works out. It's kind of like an even exchange |
1:21.9 | That's right right right right right they subsidize the city has to subsidize |
1:27.1 | the |
1:28.4 | Building and the operations of affordable housing because otherwise it wouldn't work |
1:32.2 | What's the what's how much do you need to have an affordable housing building like 20% 30% like a percentage? |
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