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Committee hears bill to allow state trust land leases for attainable single-family housing
Summary
House Bill 931 would authorize school trust/state lands to be leased for owner-occupied, single-family attainable workforce housing; sponsors said leases would retain state ownership and include limits to prevent large commercial buyouts, while opponents and committee members pressed for details and precedent.
Representative Curtis Schomer, sponsor of House Bill 931, told the House Business and Labor Committee the bill would allow the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC) state trust lands to be leased for development of attainable single-family workforce housing. Schomer described the bill as a constituent-driven effort for lands that are “not prime income source lands already” and said the aim is to make housing more affordable by leasing land while making homes owner-occupied.
Committee members asked whether the…
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