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Appropriations subcommittee narrows House Bill 50 to an inventory of state properties for affordable housing
Summary
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Corrections & Institutions agreed to focus legislation on producing an inventory of underutilized state properties that could be considered for affordable housing development, and to ask the Agency of Administration and key state agencies to supply that inventory for legislative review.
The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Corrections & Institutions on Thursday narrowed discussion of House Bill 50 to a proposed inventory of state-owned land, buildings and parking lots that might be suitable for conversion to affordable housing.
Committee chair (committee chair) said the panel should start with an inventory and then decide later how identified properties would be conveyed or developed. "Maybe we just dial it back a little bit and just really focus on who does the inventory," the chair said during the meeting.
Connor (committee member), who presented a draft of the bill, described the bill’s purpose as “to facilitate the development of affordable housing by identifying underutilized state owned properties that could be converted to housing units.” Connor said the draft would place responsibility for producing a report with candidate properties with the secretary of administration, in consultation with Buildings and General Services (BGS), the Agency of Transportation…
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