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Candidates emphasize housing as top priority; mayor highlights $37.5M pro-housing grant
Summary
At the forum candidates described multiple strategies for affordable housing, including permanent supportive housing, zoning changes, nonprofit partnerships and use of a federal pro-housing grant the mayor cited as $37.5 million to allow the city to act as a developer.
Affordable housing dominated several forum answers as candidates discussed short- and long-term pathways.
Bruce Teague cited a federal pro-housing grant of $37,500,000 that the city obtained and said it would enable the city to do consumer education and to act as a developer to create permanently affordable units. “What this is gonna allow the city to do…is…
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