City & State | May 15, 2023
…construction targets over the next three years and threatened to override local zoning laws if they failed to meet those goals. The proposal received criticisms from both suburban Republican lawmakers and from Democrats. The plan also would have renewed tax incentives to build affordable housing.
George Arzt, a Democratic consultant, said the lack of lobbying efforts from key members of the state Legislature made it harder for the governor to gather support for her housing proposal. “It doesn’t seem that there was a process involved where people on the Second Floor were speaking to people in the…
