eli5: How can they create affordable housing that stays affordable

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So a developer working with the government and getting incentives builds a nice neighborhood of homes that people can afford. People in the target income group buy the houses. All good. But when housing prices spike, what keeps the houses in the hands of the targeted economic group. When owner goes to sell, won’t the market dictate what happens, opening up the neighborhood to what has been referred to as gentrification?

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In whistler BC they tied the rate of growth that was allowed to different markets so that in theory it grows less than the local market which was over heating

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