Does Luxury Housing Trickle Down to Affordable Apartments?

Published: March 8, 2016, 10:30 p.m.

Can you create affordable housing by building luxury towers? A boom in development of large apartment towers has prompted a fight for a two-year moratorium on new projects that don't comply with the city's general plan. But planners say this moratorium will stymie efforts to create much-needed affordable housing. We visit the people at the heart of a development fight.