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Public speakers urge action on housing as director requests report after board declares housing crisis
Summary
Board members and public commenters highlighted long subsidized-housing waiting lists and rising eviction filings; Director Adcock requested a staff report on housing starts, vacant properties and eviction data after the board included a housing-crisis resolution on the consent agenda.
The Little Rock Board of Directors heard multiple public comments March 17 urging action on employee pay and the city's housing challenges, and a director requested a staff report with data on housing starts, vacant properties and eviction filings.
Director Adcock asked that agenda item 13, which included a resolution to declare a housing crisis in the City of Little Rock and to affirm commitments to expand affordable housing, be read separately. She requested that…
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