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Resident urges regional planning committee to prioritize affordable housing; commission ratifies mayor's planning appointments
Summary
A Putnam County resident urged the newly formed regional planning committee to focus on affordable housing and homelessness; the commission ratified three mayoral appointees to the regional planning committee during the same meeting.
During the public comment period at the Putnam County Commission meeting, resident Samantha Raper urged the commission and the recently appointed regional planning committee to prioritize affordable housing and to consider the fiscal and public-safety costs of homelessness.
Raper identified herself as a Putnam County resident and community leader and said 16.3% of county residents live at or below the poverty line and 13.6% live with severe housing problems, defined in her remarks as…
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