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Emery County board hears UAC housing foundation pitch, chamber white paper on attainable housing
Summary
Utah Association of Counties and the Emery County Chamber presented strategies for rural housing including a county-participation housing foundation, self-help homebuilding, utilities investment and senior housing; the board asked questions about fund control and project eligibility.
County officials and stakeholders spent the bulk of the Dec. 17 Emery County CRA meeting on presentations about how to deploy CRA housing set-aside dollars toward local housing needs.
Randy Grace, CEO of the Utah Association of Counties, described a draft UAC Housing Foundation intended to pool participating counties' set-aside dollars to leverage state and federal grants for rural projects. Grace said participation is limited to contributing counties and that local counties retain control of their contributed funds; he emphasized the…
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