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Mayor Lisa Brown announced four proposals to expand affordable housing funding and reduce development barriers, including formally renaming the local housing levy as the HEART Fund, a permit-fee deferral for certain affordable projects, a unified development code update, and a public-rule change to allow waiving general facilities charges. City and state leaders, nonprofit partners and developers described the measures as steps to increase housing supply and affordability; questions focused on timing, funding sources and next steps for code updates and awards. The proposals are intended to leverage $4,000,000 from the HEART Fund and other federal, state and local resources.
