GOP Ditches Proposal for More Affordable Housing Cash, Angering Advocates Concerned About Amazon

(RECAP: Republican lawmakers have scuttled Gov. Ralph Northam’s proposal to ramp up state funding for affordable housing, a go that’s irked advocates hoping for more state help as Amazon starts to go into Arlington. GOP leaders in both the state Senate and House of Delegates have now place forward budget proposals without the $19.5 million spread across two years Northam had hoped to see flow into the Virginia Housing Trust Fund, a program offering low-interest loans for developers hoping to build reasonably priced housing.)

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