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Advocates and skeptics of tiered incentives outline sharp trade-offs
Summary
Committee members traded arguments over whether to keep tiered bonuses or require 100% deed restriction; proponents said tiers could attract private investment, opponents said only full deed restriction guarantees affordable units.
The SSR group's discussion split between members who favored high deed-restriction thresholds to ensure affordable units and others who said market incentives and public-private partnerships are required to make projects feasible.
One committee member (S4) called for a hard line: "Get rid of the tiers and just have a 100% deed restricted. You get the bonus." That position drew immediate pushback from colleagues who said 100% requirements would likely constrain projects to government or nonprofit developers and exclude typical private-market actors.
Another committee member (S9) urged compromise: increase deed-restriction thresholds to nudges that could "tip the market" while allowing some private participation. The facilitator noted the group lacks definitive market data and recommended testing 50% and 80% thresholds and re-running financials before drafting final code language.
