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Louisiana Housing Lab seeks city help to build four affordable homes in West End
Summary
A local CHDO and neighborhood advocates outlined a four-unit for-sale project funded by Louisiana Housing Corporation and asked the city to waive permit fees, help recruit qualified buyers and consider streetscape support.
Advocates for affordable housing and the Louisiana Housing Lab on Tuesday asked the New Iberia City Council to back a four-unit homeownership project aimed at the West End neighborhood.
The ask came from Anat Zahnemann, a Hopkins Street resident and business owner, and Corey Saft, executive director of the Louisiana Housing Lab and a professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Zahnemann said the project is intended to support neighborhood revitalization and to supply affordable, high-quality homes near recent commercial and streetscape investment.
“The money is sitting there, and we are assuming it’s going forward,” Saft said of state funding secured through the Louisiana Housing Corporation. He described the development as “four,…
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