Biden s infrastructure plan calls for cities to limit single-family zoning and instead build affordable housing msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Does Multifamily Benefit from the $2T Federal Infrastructure Plan?
Multifamily leaders discuss President Joe Biden’s wide-ranging proposals and their impact on the industry. Apr012021
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A wide-ranging $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan released by President Joe Biden Wednesday that includes $213 billion to address affordable housing issues for low- and middle-income renters and buyers, upgrades the nation’s public housing stock and seeks to remove barriers to development received wide approval from multifamily executives who said housing has historically helped lead the country out of recession.
But some also expressed concern about how to pay for the sweeping proposals that range from $621 billion on improvements for roads, bridges, railways, ports, airports, public transit and the electric grid to $400 billion to expand home care services for the elderly and disabled and increase wages for those who care for them. Among other pr
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Prompted by pandemic, some states buy hotels for the homeless By Erika Bolstad, Stateline.org
Share: Genia Hope, 52, moves into her new room at a hotel that is being used for Project Roomkey in Whittier, Calif., on July 7. Oregon s Project Turnkey, modeled after a similar program in California, was born out of the need to provide shelter and practice social distancing during the pandemic. The economic effects of the pandemic and wildfires have compounded a preexisting homelessness and affordable housing crisis on the West Coast. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
PORTLAND It’s a bold goal in a place with a major housing crisis: Get as many as 2,000 unsheltered Oregonians into homes this winter by spending $65 million in state money to buy up to 20 underused hotels.