Federal officials joined Iowa housing experts at an affordable housing development to tout the removal of regulations and other actions designed to make home construction and ownership more attainable.
U.S. Rep. Zach Nunn and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner joined Greater Des Moines Habitat for Humanity CEO Lance Henning Friday morning for a tour of Waukee Habitat for Humanity homes-in-progress. They also held a roundtable about affordable housing with others involved in housing and economic development programs.
“When you develop public-private partnerships, like we have here with Habitat for Humanity, that is the secret sauce,” Turner said. “That’s the magic in bringing back affordability — easing the regulatory environment, creating public-private partnerships, increasing the supply, bringing the costs down, helps the American people.”…