Upscale Suburban City Looks At Options For Creating Affordable Housing

6 August 2006 - 5:35pm

Planning commissioners from Santa Clarita, California, have recent visited several Southern California cities with affordable housing ordinances in hopes of gaining insight for a possible inclusionary housing ordinance.

"With the median price of a single-family home in Santa Clarita about $600,000, the term 'affordable housing' probably seems archaic and maybe even a bit ridiculous to some potential homebuyers, but city officials are hoping to ensure that reasonably priced homes survive.

The City is discussing...the idea of creating a city ordinance requiring developers to include and provide certain numbers of affordable units."

Source: The Signal News, August 5, 2006
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