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Irving holds community workshop on affordable housing tools, with residents urging better outreach and targeted rehab funding
Summary
City staff and National Development Council presenters walked through maps and financing options—CDBG, HOME, TIF, HUD 108, LIHTC—and sought feedback on priorities such as multifamily rehab, density bonuses and neighborhood empowerment zones; residents pressed for clearer outreach and repair incentives.
City of Irving planning officials and consultants outlined a menu of tools to address the city’s tight housing market and asked residents for input at the fifth public meeting in a four-part affordable housing series.
Steve Reed, director of planning and community development, opened the meeting and introduced Maureen Milligan of the National Development Council, who led a presentation that used a Market Value Analysis (MVA) and maps to show where housing is unaffordable and where aging multifamily housing and concentrated poverty overlap. "In Irving ... the demand for housing at all income levels is higher than the supply," Milligan said, describing limited vacant land and a large stock of older rental units that may need reinvestment.
The presentation summarized existing city tools—Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) and HOME funds, a fee-waiver program…
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