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Residents, planners debate "affordable" housing language as Oro Valley updates 10-year plan
Summary
At an Oro Valley community working meeting, planners and residents debated whether to keep the term “affordable housing” in the draft housing element and recommended reframing toward “attainable” and “adequate” housing options tied to housing choice and workforce needs.
Malini Sims, the Town of Oro Valley’s principal planner, opened the online working-group session and asked participants to review draft goals, policies and actions for workforce attraction and the housing element.
The group spent substantial time on how the general plan should treat “affordable housing.” Resident Kristen said, “Affordable housing does not mean Section 8 housing. It does not mean subsidized housing, especially in Oro Valley,” and urged the group to treat affordability as relative to local incomes and housing types. Rosa urged the plan to reference the Oro Valley residential housing plan and its map, saying that…
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