Care to parse?
I'm feeling a bit crabby tonight about the use of language in the real estate/housing world.
Does the term "work force housing" bother anybody else out there? It's the term well-meaning policy people have developed to talk about "housing that is affordable" i.e. housing for people who work that is NOT "affordable housing," i.e. housing for people who are poor. Funny thing is that the COST of HOUSING (renting or buying) these days is likely to make people who WORK become POOR.
In a way, the term "workforce housing" says "Here's housing for people who work," and then there's everyone else, and everyone else is in the majority? You tell me. Am I crazy?
It reminds me a little bit of how some mortgage brokers will seek to soothe worries about people having trouble with their subprime mortgages by pointing out these individuals had confounding life events like job loss or illness. Oh well, no worry. That makes us FEEL so MUCH better! We are not THOSE type of people - you know, the ones who would lose their jobs or become ill!
