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Effingham workshop highlights housing shortfall and plan to form housing task force
Summary
At the Fagan 2050 workshop, officials and residents identified rising construction and land costs, tight inventory and interest rates as drivers of local housing unaffordability and discussed creating a multi-stakeholder housing task force to coordinate solutions.
Moderator (speaker S1) opened the joint comprehensive-plan workshop and said the 140-page Fagan 2050 draft compiles 16 months of work, focus groups and a community survey of more than 1,000 responses. Presenter (speaker S6) summarized the housing analysis and said the document combines prior studies and census data to create targets and implementation options.
Residents, developers and officials debated why housing costs have risen. One participant said material and interest costs, land prices and limited labor are the dominant drivers. A developer noted…
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