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Residents urge action on affordable housing as commission removes linkage-fee item to a future meeting
Summary
Community members and faith groups urged the commission to adopt an affordable-housing linkage fee and other measures after the commission removed item 9a (redevelopment and neighborhood services: essential housing linkage fees) to a future meeting. Speakers cited homelessness among schoolchildren and local families displaced by rising rents.
Several residents and faith-based advocates used the March 5 public-comment period to press Daytona Beach commissioners to act on affordable housing and to express disappointment after the commission removed item 9a — a redevelopment and neighborhood services linkage-fee proposal — from the agenda to a future meeting.
Karen Delisle, representing a faith organization that described itself as "Faith" (Fighting Against Injustice Toward Harmony), said more than 2,000 Volusia County schoolchildren are homeless and urged the commission to consider…
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