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Consultant outlines housing needs assessment and options: CDBG, missing‑middle housing and Opportunity Zones
Summary
Grow America consultant Maureen Milligan presented a housing needs assessment and four priority tactics including a CDBG-funded home repair program (estimated ~$700,000/year), policies to enable missing‑middle housing, and the potential use of Opportunity Zones and housing finance/public facility corporations to spur development. Council asked for follow-up briefings on each tactic.
Consultant Maureen Milligan of Grow America returned to Richardson City Council to present a housing needs assessment and a set of recommended tactics aimed at addressing home maintenance needs, missing‑middle supply, and affordable rental production.
Milligan identified three priority housing needs: (1) assistance to older, low-income homeowners for home repair and accessibility modifications; (2) more reasonably priced for‑sale housing for families; and (3) well‑maintained rental housing affordable to low‑wage workers. She framed four tactics aligned to those priorities: a CDBG‑funded home repair program (an estimated allocation…
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