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cities are rebounding all across the country after struggling for decades to attract new investment yet in nearly every corner of America communities are concerned with what seems to be a growing crisis how do we make sure that people of all incomes share in the benefits of development and growth millions of people worked hard to make our cities better and we invested billions of tax dollars to improve struggling neighborhoods it works but one result is housing prices are rising rapidly many people who work so hard to make our cities places we want to live can no longer afford to live in them [Music] this pattern is not going to change on its own so more and more communities are consciously promoting mixed income development through inclusionary housing programs these inclusionary policies require builders of market rate housing to include some units the local workforce can own or rent here's how it works imagine a developer is building a 100 unit apartment building a local inclusionar