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Tulsa officials outline ‘community builder’ pilot to speed affordable rehabs and track progress
Summary
City staff presented a pilot program designed to fast-track developer-led rehabilitation projects aimed at returning roughly 6,000 housing units to the market over four years, with multilingual outreach and a public tracker promised.
City officials described a new “community builder” pilot program at a Public Works Committee meeting, saying the program is intended to speed rehabilitation of units affordable to households earning about 60% of area median income (roughly $34,000) and to produce data the city can use to reform permitting and development processes.
“This community builder program is designed to fast track a lot of that, particularly against that affordable housing number and how I think it's defined for us as, 60% of the median income, which is around $34,000 and less is the focus,” the mayor’s designee said. The presenter added the pilot aims both to help reach a four‑year goal of returning 6,000–4,000 units to service and to reveal process changes the city can adopt more broadly.
The program, staff said, will combine city commitments (permitting and cross‑department…
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