Thousand you are struggling in our market to find housing iowa city says it needs more Affordable Housing. So tonight, the city and housing groups laid out several potential solutions to keep up with growing demand. Kcrgtv9s jordee kalk joins me in studio tonight. Jordee, why is the need for Affordable Housing increasing . I spoke to the chair of the she tells me cost of rentals is continuing to go up, while incomes are not. The coalition also says College Students are creating stiff competition for rental housing. 7 01 27, so Affordable Housing developers, whether they are for profit or non profit find it hard to compete in the market. Sally scott says too often Affordable Housing developers cant compete for the price of land in iowa city. Thats why she was glad to learn the city council is taking some initiative. 7 02 59, the ones that make land affordable for Affordable Housing are high priority for us. City leaders debated creating anywhere from a 500,000 to a Million Dollar fund that would go to Affordable Housing needs. A percentage of that would be reserved for purchasing land as an investment. Nat 7 34thats where i would like to start is the 500,000 per year. The City Council Also talked about where new Affordable Housing should go up. Whether the units should be placed together, or scattered throughout the city. Mayor 8 01 40 i think the key for me is doing what we can to balance among our neighborhood s. And idea sally scott agrees with. 7 03 35, integrating Affordable Housing and market rate housing, another topic included working with new rules and regulations. 58 04,tracy hightshoe iow a City Neighborhood Services coordinator looking at regulatory changes we can make with city code. These changes could include parking, zoning and design. And could help local shelters already helping people with housing needs. Crissy canganelli sh elter house 9 14 where we only would have been able to develop 8 efficiency unties will now the Johnson County Affordable Housing coalition, says housing is affordable when its 30 percent of a household income. The Coalition Says many times, people in iowa city, pay more than 60 percent on rent alone. And forrest these are very preliminary talks. The council says the hope is to implement these changes by the end of 2017. Thanks, jordee. That requires developers to include Affordable Housing in new residential buildings for the riverfront crossings district. They must have Affordable Housing in 10 percent of the units, or pay a fee. A nonprofit opening in dubuque will help people in finding housing. The east Central Development corporation will provide services that project concern used to, before closing in july. It will serve the citys homeless and lowincome populations. Janet walker, assistant housing supervisor finding out what their needs are, and making sure they have Supportive Services to maintain a permanent, supportive housing. The nonprofit is funded through the state continuum of care grant the city receives each year. In a tv9 followup this morning. The dubuque man who shot and killed his daughter will spend the rest of his life in prison. The jury took only a few hours to find robert stern guilty of firstdegree murder. Rested, yesterday. The 63 year olds attorneys didnt call a witness to the stand. They alleged prosecution didnt prove stern killed his daughter, beyond a reasonable doubt. Stern shot his daughter, kimberly, 17 times in their home last year. She had autism. A judge has resentenced a man who was convicted as a teenager for killing his grandparents in manchester. Isaiah sweet will serve life in prison with a chance for parole. Sentence without parole. Sweet appealed to the iowa supreme court. Earlier this year, it banned life without parole sentences for juveniles convicted of firstdegree murder. Sweet shot and killed his grandparents in 2012, when he was 17. A university of iowa masters student has died in an accidental shooting in western iowa. Friends say megan sloss was shot inside a car in sac county, sunday. It happened when a passenger was handling a handgun to the hospital, where she later died. She was 24 years old. Her obituary says she was studying social services at the university of iowa. She was also working at iowa kidsight and the university of iowa hospitals and clinics. The Waterloo Community playhouse is discussing Race Relations while running the play to kill a mockingbird. The theater is putting on the story about Racial Injustice as part of its 100th anniversary season. Organize and talk about racial issues and themes that come up in the play. They say a lot of topics in to kill a mocking bird are relevant today, even though the play is set in the 1930s. We thought that we had healed a lot of the wounds of racism and whats happening now a lot of people are pulling back the veil to find out that we really havent come as far as we thought we had so perhaps the time has come to discuss it again and see what we can do to actually move forward. To address the current climate of Race Relations. Dubuque says its agreed to settle a legal dispute thats boiled over who can provide water where. The citys assistant Attorney Says the agreement is between the city and the rural water provider, Central Iowa Water Association. It comes after the city tried to expand infrastructure to the southwest arterial corridor back in 2014. But the Central Iowa Water Association said it should be able to pri oral arguments yesterday in a case about the field of dreams movie site near dyersville. The dispute is over that town rezoning the movie site for commercial use in 2012. Dyersville did that so a company could build a baseball and softball complex near the movie site. But a group of Property Owners contested the rezoning, saying Council Members made up their mind before the public process began. Animeals has a new home. The people who cant afford it. Last week, we told you ani meals was in danger of shutting down. The owners of its current storage location, an old barn, are demolishing that building. The nonprofit couldnt afford much else. Group officials put out a call for help and a local landlord, steve emerson, stepped up. Hes donating a space that will keep animeals operating. And we want to share a story of two iowa state troopers who went above and beyond this past a call went out over trooper frank burns and trooper cody reicks radios for a missing boy at the game. Because there was such a great description of him, the troopers were able to find the boy in a black number six jersey within a minute. Burns went into the stands and calmed down the boy while reicks found his parents. Burns says it was satisfying to be able to reunite a boy with his parents. Dozens of veterans in the cedar rapids area their service. They stopped by monuments and memorials that honor the sacrifices theyve made. And the university of dubuque tops its fundraising goal of 100 Million Dollars. Hear where that money is going to. First heres a look at the most viewed stories today on kcrg dotcom. Stay with your 24 hour cedar rapids area is heading home tonight after taking an honor flight to our nations capital. The veterans spent the day visiting memorials and monuments in their honor. Kcrgtv9s Samantha Jo Roth caught up with them in washington. It wasnt just any Tuesday Morning at Reagan National airport. All of the hustle and bustle stood still for a homecoming. Decades in the making. Group hug complete strangers waiting for a chance to say was several people stopped and wanted to shake your hand, it kind of choked me up. Down this flight of stairs a flood of emotion it is so overwhelming. I cant begin to describe in words what i feel right now even. Their last mobilization couldnt have been more different we never had anyone greet us when we came home. I didnt think much of it. Vietnam war veterans like ronald earll. On a mission to find a physical reminder of those who never made it home. It was really nice to see his name on the wall, very very nice. We went to School Together for four years and we worked together for four years. Painful memories for lloid sodawasser who served in korea. When he returned, he became a teacher. One hes going overseas and that he will never see me again. And he was right. Im visiting his place on the wall today. This trip. A time to reflect on the country these were learning more about the bombs in the new york area. Authorities say the suspect had a journal that bringing the storms along and north of highway 20. A Flash Flood Watch is in effect for this area through thursday evening where 23 of certainly possible. Drier weather heads in for friday and saturday with storms again possible late on sunday. Have a great night tonight chance of storms, mainly north. Wind s 510. Low 67 tomorrow partly cloudy with a chance of storms, mainly north. Humid. Wind s 515. High 87 tom. Night chance of storms. Wind s 510. Lw thursday chance of storms, mainly north. High 85 low 67 friday mostly sunny. High 86 low 64 saturday mostly sunny. High 85 low 64 sunday storms late in the day, otherwise partly sunny. High 79 low 65 monday mostly cloudy with a tuesday partly cloudy. High 69 low 51 wednesday partly cloudy. High 70 low 50 it has exceeded its goal for fundraising over the past eight years. The school announced it had gotten 120 Million Dollars with its achieving the dream campaign. It had set out to raise 100 million. University president Jeffrey Bullock says the money has gone toward work on buildings and student scholarships. Jeffrey bullock, President University of dubuque were trying to work very hard to keep the cost of attending college down. And as i like to say to our trustees, that endowment is the only form, or only revenue stream we have that doesnt add to student debt. Bullock says the university is looking to expand to the phoenix area. Well be back. Stay with us. The federal government is filing darien why have the latest smartphone if you cant use it wherever you go . Switch to u. S. Cellular for our best plan yet 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. To share more photos at your cabin all for just 49. The best part . We put towers in places the other guys dont. Because u. S. Cellular thinks you deserve a signal that works wherever you are. Switch to u. S. Cellular and get a whopping 7 gigs of data per line for only 49. Ahmad khan rahami include use of a weapon of mass destruction. Abcs Elizabeth Hur reports from new york. New charges filed against suspected bomber ahmad rahami. Revealing the 28yearold planned and plotted his attacks for allege. The suspect captured in this surveillance video. Planting explosives in his suitcase and backpack left fingerprints on some evidence. The criminal complaint describes the power of the blast on 23rd street in manhattan. As Strong Enough to hawkeyes put the loss to ndsu behind them as they get ready for the big ten. And scott has High School Volleyball highlights from several ranked teams. Stay with your 24 hour off saturday at rutgers. The hawkeyes didnt have long to lick their wounds after the loss to north dakota state. Scott as depressing as saturdays loss was for the hawkeye faithful, trust me, the coaches and players felt worse. Nobodys more disappointed than the players and coaches. Its what we do. At least its a big part of what we do, so youre affected by it. The big thing about anytime you get disappointed in sports or life, you got to move on at some point. And it didnt take long for c. J. Beathard to remember that saturday wasnt the end of the world. That lesson came googoo and she says, googoo, googoo, guess what . and im like, what . What, tatum . and she like, i got three pictures with herky , and im like she has no idea what just happened. Its innocent moments like that you realize the worlds going to keep spinning and life goes on. Iowas team rule allows for 24 hours to either celebrate a win or sulk in a loss, so by now, the hawkeyes have turned the page because theres still a conference ti if youre wasting time having a pity party it really doesnt help you much for moving forward. Everybodys down after the game but now were focusing that anger, putting more energy into this week, try to forget about last week and just understand what we need to do to be able to win games, to be able to move on and be a better team. Because as the hawks know, wallowing in saturdays shocking loss wont make this week any easier. In iowa city, Scott Westerberg tv9 sports. What a start for the xavier Volleyball Team this year at 181. The saints hosted iowa 4a. The women of troy are 11th in 5a. West starts the match on fire. Madi fay serves up an ace. Women of troy score the first five points in the first set. Xavier closes the gap but this ace from madi ford helps west take the opener 2523. The second set also went down to the wire. Charlot te richards finds the back corner. Saints pull with one at 2120. But former tv9 athlete of the week emma norris and the women of troy take the secon over on 9. 2 tonight kennedy hosting city high and Madison Palmer with the ace to give the cougars a 25 14 win in set one. And kennedy with a great serving game tonight kendal meyer gets them start in set two. City cuts the lead to 1310 on the left handed bomb from alexa aldrich ingram. Man she get up. But the rest was all Kennedy Paige frank with the kill and and then on match match point the city high 30. At marion tonight the third ranked indians hosted Benton Community and randi wright with the kill and that had them going bonkers great crowd tonight. Benton came to play grace martinson with the hammer and the bobcats cut the lead to 119 in the first game on the Morgan Bossler backhit winner. But then 62 Isabella Sade got untracked and when she gets going lookout and marion is ranked 3rd for a reason and indians beat the bobcats 30. One last look at the forecast, joe. Fog will not be an issue tonight, but rain will. A warm front lifts to the north dicky from hollywood its Jimmy Kimmel Live tonight Denzel Washington from speechless, Minnie Driver and music from usher. And now, by the power vested in me heres jimmy kimmel [ cheers and applause ] . Jimmy hi, there. Im jimmy, im the host of the show. Thanks for watching. Thanks for coming. Thats very kind. Ill say something. There are a lot of important and lifethreatening and worldchanging things going on
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