Much of the routine trade and investment between China and America is entirely appropriate and in America’s interest. But inserting the Chinese Communist Party into America’s pay-to-play system and its economic development strategy isn’t just crossing a line. It’s a leap into an abyss of stupidity.
It would seem another instant way to create more housing would be to allow/ rezone/ covert all the empty small retail /commercial property’s into appartmnts. In my far nw side neighborhood those properties have been empety for decades. My neighbors own some small retail buildings w apartments above and havent been able to rent the storefronts for ages..and it aint comen back–cant compete w big box or online retail. Dont know how prop tax would work, assume city would lose if rezoned residential