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CRA board approves $5,000 to finalize housing plan and debates options for affordable housing spending
Summary
The Emery County Community Reinvestment Agency authorized $5,000 at its Sept. 4 meeting to complete a draft housing plan and held an extended discussion about using the CRA’s 10% affordable‑housing set‑aside for manufactured homes, a revolving loan fund, senior housing and other targeted programs.
The Emery County Community Reinvestment Agency voted Sept. 4 to authorize $5,000 to finalize a county housing plan that will guide use of the CRA’s affordable‑housing set‑aside. The motion passed on roll call: Tom Huntington, Jordan Leonard, Jay Humphrey, Jacob Sharp and Kevin Jensen voted “aye.”
Board discussion before the vote covered multiple concepts for deploying the 10 percent affordable‑housing set‑aside that CRA law requires. Ideas raised by board members and staff included:
- Using CRA funds to buy manufactured/mobile homes (single‑wide or small dwellings) to place in existing, underused mobile‑home parks that already have hookups, then offering those homes on a rent‑to‑own schedule or other low‑interest repayment plan so buyers build…
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