Affordable housing database plan advances
CARSON CITY — The Nevada Assembly has advanced a plan today to create a database that would make it easier to find low-income housing.
AB139 would require the state Housing Division to compile listings of low-income and handicapped-accessible housing in a database that could be searched by home-seekers.
The database also would be used to create reports, making it easier for state and local governments to get grants for affordable housing.
In Las Vegas Assemblyman Marcus Conklin's words: "In the last housing boom that we had, there was a large population of folks who were left unrepresented and unable to access housing because the market was so hot. This bill will go a long way toward serving this population in the future."
