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Partnership for Smarter Growth
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📍Richmond, VA
The tea is in May 2024, Henrico put $60 mil from data center taxes into an affordable housing trust fund, they were lauded as a housing champion

But a month later, when Chesterfield took out a $300 mil bond last year for a highway extension, no one batted an eye
July 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
If localities put the same kind of money and attention into housing affordability as highway expansions, then we wouldn't be having this kind of problem...
July 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This critique of AMI for affordable housing or pointing out who it helps in the Richmond context is all to say that we need to be doing more to ensure we're growing as a region in a way that works for everyone...
July 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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July 23, 2025 at 9:15 PM