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Committee hears housing developers, Habitat and analysts on RHID, MIH, tax credits and zoning reforms
Summary
Developers and nonprofit housing groups told the Kansas interim committee that state programs (RHID, MIH, KHITC) and local zoning changes can expand starter and attainable housing; an AEI analysis urged smaller lots and changes to municipal codes to increase supply.
Developers, state housing officials and nonprofit housing advocates addressed a Kansas special committee on October 24 about how state programs and local land-use rules affect housing supply and affordability.
Ross Vogel of Artland Housing Partners, Chris Colson of Ad Astra Development and Derek Lee described how local projects used Kansas programs — the Reinvestment Housing Incentive District (RHID), the Moderate Income Housing (MIH) grant program and the Kansas Housing Investor Tax Credit (KHITC) — to lower lot costs and create attainable homes for first-time buyers.
Colson described a Spring Hill project that combined an RHID with a state transportation grant to finance an off-site collector road that unlocked hundreds of acres for development. He said the RHID’s “pay-as-you-go” design — where developers fund infrastructure and receive reimbursement from incremental future taxes — shifted risk to private developers while keeping special-assessment bills off new homeowners’ taxes.
Derek Lee described…
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