Senator Gounardes' "Faith-Based Affordable Housing Act" is Featured in the New York Times
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Seeking to grow revenue and do good, faith-based organizations are increasingly turning to their unused land and underused buildings as a solution to affordable housing.
State and local governments are also recognizing the potential to increase housing stock. Andrew Gounardes, a New York State senator who represents southern Brooklyn, introduced a bill in December that, he said, would “streamline the process and the way in which religious institutions that want to help contribute to solving the state’s housing crisis will be able to develop affordable housing on their property.”
Similar bills were passed in California in October and in Seattle in 2019, and lawmakers in Virginia are drafting a bill based on California’s.
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