The Affordable Housing Production Task Force – consisting of bipartisan elected officials, business leaders, and agency officials – delivers a list of nine recommendations to meet the state’s growing housing needs.
Many of the recommendations revolve around the need to increase housing density. Matthew Heckles is the director of the Delaware State Housing Authority and a task force member. He says current zoning laws often encourage building large homes on large tracts of land, and those homes are often out of reach for most Delawareans.
“Our market right now is – I would say it’s broken,” he says. “I would say that we have created a system where what can be built is that large spread out housing and that economically has to be expensive.”…