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Lawmakers weigh $2 million housing grant and guardrails for ACCD program
Summary
A capital‑budget working group discussed language to create a housing development assistance grant administered by the Agency of Commerce and Community Development, debated reducing a $3.1 million request to $2 million in cash, and outlined eligibility and oversight guardrails before finalizing bill language with legislative counsel.
Lawmakers on a capital‑budget committee on a March morning discussed creating a competitive housing grant administered by the Agency of Commerce and Community Development and debated the size and terms of an appropriation that could appear in the capital bill.
Troy (staff member) read draft language that would "appropriate a lump sum to the Agency of Commerce and Community Development to establish a housing development assistance grant program," and the group discussed criteria intended to limit the program to projects that are ready to move to construction and produce permanently affordable units.
Why it matters: committee members said the request is different from traditional capital projects because it would give the agency discretion to pick among community proposals. That raised two recurring concerns: (1) whether the request should be bonded or cash, and (2) how to design guardrails so the committee is not asked later to weigh in on dozens of individual local projects.
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