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Public testimony: youth, housing groups and developers weigh in on whole-block strategy
Summary
At the committee hearing, a high-school student urged a vacant-property registry and reinvestment fund; housing nonprofits supported neighborhood-scale approaches; some residents criticized the plan for favoring developers and urged climate-resilient, community-led solutions.
Public testimony followed the agency presentation and covered a range of views.
Ace Azire, a high-school student in a Youth-in-Government project, proposed a local vacant-property ordinance to require registration of vacant buildings and to create a City Rehabilitation and Reinvestment Fund that would use penalties and surcharges to support renovation, first-time…
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