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Garden City officials: housing shortfall persists; RHID remains primary tool
Summary
Assistant City Manager Danielle Burke told the Garden City Board of Education the city remains behind its housing goals and that the reinvestment housing district (RHID) tax-increment tool has driven most new housing over the past decade.
Garden City Assistant City Manager Danielle Burke told the Board of Education on Feb. 3 that the city remains behind target on housing supply and that the reinvestment housing district (RHID) tax-increment tool has produced most of the new housing in recent years.
Burke summarized a December 2024 housing needs assessment and said that, using recent growth assumptions, Garden City needs thousands of additional housing units to meet demand. “We are desperately behind where we need to be as it relates to housing,” she said during the annual housing update.
The RHID, a tax-increment financing tool, allows developers to use property-tax increments generated by new development to fund infrastructure such as streets, sewers and sidewalks. Burke said the city and other taxing entities retain the…
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