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Resident points to modular and tiny homes as part of answer to housing affordability
Summary
An unidentified resident at a St. Mary's County meeting described modular and tiny-house developments as potential affordable-housing options, recounted personal homebuying history, and said the county lacks funds to build housing directly.
An unidentified speaker, a resident, told the St. Mary's County meeting that modular houses and tiny-home developments could help address local housing affordability, noting that “Amazon...sell[s] houses now” and that some tiny-home communities near North Carolina seaside areas offer homes he said were priced about $90,000.
The resident said the county does not build housing and instead uses regulations and tax incentives to…
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