Arizona Sens. Mark Kelly and Ruben Gallego announced a new round of federal funding will go toward affordable housing projects in Tucson.
Tucson Mayor Regina Romero says the $7 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development will address urgent housing challenges in the city.
The money will go toward supporting efforts to ease permitting processing and update land use policies so that more homes can be built more quickly.
An analysis from the University of Arizona found less than 40% of homes sold in the Tucson metropolitan area were affordable to families earning the local median income in 2023. It was the first time in 15 years that the city’s housing affordability average fell below the national average.
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Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs is proposing a $17.7 billion state budget focused on affordability projects, but it relies on uncertain federal reimbursements and deals with Republicans that have yet to materialize. -
Two of Arizona’s congressional Democrats joined forces on Wednesday to talk about housing affordability. Reps. Yassamin Ansari and Adelita Grijalva held a shadow hearing with members of their Progressive Caucus. -
Arizona Democrats have long wanted to place restrictions on corporations and landlords as part of their housing affordability plans. Now Republicans favor some parallel efforts. -
For the last several years, there’s been an effort to give cities back some of their ability to regulate that market; the state generally took it away in 2016. -
Democrats at the Arizona Capitol are hopeful that support from President Donald Trump is enough to convince their Republican counterparts to back a plan to stop out-of-state investors from buying up the state’s housing supply.
