Orange County approves building affordable housing on religious property

ORLANDO, Fla. — This week, Orange County commissioners approved a program that allows housing to be built on religious-owned property.

The program is called Affordable Housing for Religious Institutional Lands (AHRIL). Community leaders believe it will lead to some much-needed change.

“We need in our community more affordable housing within the already dense parts of our community, and churches can be a really good avenue towards fixing some of that problem,” said Eric Gray…

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