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Delray CDC urges city to speed permits, join affordable housing projects to house workforce
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Delray Beach Community Development Corporation President Yvonne Lee Odom told the commission the CDC needs quicker permitting flexibility and code accommodations to build workforce homes on narrow historic lots and urged help finalizing projects with national builders to put homes on the ground without delays.
Yvonne Lee Odom, president of the Delray Beach Community Development Corporation (CDC), urged the City Commission on Sept. 3 to accelerate permitting and provide regulatory accommodations to help the nonprofit deliver workforce and affordable homeownership in historically Black neighborhoods.
Odom described the CDC’s "We Are Home" project, which partners with national builders such as Pulte and Lennar to develop homes affordable to Delray families by using county down‑payment assistance; she said…
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