Lawrence Mayor's Plan to Boost Affordable Housing
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Lawrence Mayor Deb Whitfield is tackling housing affordability with a task forces forty recommendations, including relaxed zoning, faster approvals, and a land bank. The citys median home price doubled and homeownership dropped over the past decade, with a fifty-three percent decline in new housing production and a fifty percent rent increase. Whitfield links affordable housing to public health and aims for every area to thrive. Key ideas include allowing single-family homes to become duplexes or triplexes, twenty-four-hour approvals for small projects, and a community land trust. Whitfield plans quick wins like zoning tweaks, emphasizing local control over one-size-fits-all rules.
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