Subcommittee hears bill to create Virginia Rural Housing Infrastructure Fund; bill laid on table after stakeholder support
HB 1057 would create a DHCD-administered fund to subsidize water, sewer and road infrastructure for small rural housing developments. Business and industry groups supported the bill; the subcommittee laid it on the table by recorded vote 4–2 to allow further consideration.
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Delegate Dahlia Phillips presented HB 1057 to establish the Virginia Rural Housing Infrastructure Fund within the Department of Housing and Community Development, saying high infrastructure costs—water, sewer and neighborhood roads—make small rural developments economically infeasible. "These infrastructure costs have to be divided across fewer homes in rural areas, so a subsidy can make projects viable," Phillips said.
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