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Warren LeMay / Wikimedia Commons Cincinnati s administration is recommending a new housing advisory board to facilitate funding and public input on affordable housing, but doesn t want to mandate affordable units in future development projects, as advocates have asked. Council members requested a comprehensive report last month, as part of several ongoing efforts to address the estimated 28,000-unit gap. The new board is one of several recommendations presented to the affordable housing subcommittee Tuesday. The city administration will work with this board to establish comprehensive priorities for the development and maintenance of affordable housing and also for funding deployment in this area, said Billy Weber, chief of staff in the city manager s office. ....