Right now, it’s a parking lot. Who gets to live there? Nobody.
Beyond that, the question is still absurd on its face. Not even the USSR, where housing was built by a government spending its own money on its own citizens, allocated the newest, nicest, shiniest houses to their neediest residents.
Council wouldn’t be all “who gets to DINE downtown” when a fancy new restaurant applies for a liquor license, or “who gets to EAT downtown” when only fancy grocery stores open. Yet somehow it’s only ever new apartments that gets “FOR WHOMST” screamed about it, because it’s only new apartments that require zoning changes to get built.
I had some other thoughts on organizing over in this thread:
I’ve bought copies of Jenny Schuetz’s book for the council, and will go out to get copies of the latest Mother Jones as well.