InFocus: Mayor explains why cities need to keep Legislature at bay
Maricopa Mayor Christian Price keeps an eye on what’s going on in Phoenix this time of the year. He must: The Arizona State Legislature is in session. State leaders can pass laws that either help or handicap municipalities. A big concern for local leaders comes from the unintended consequences of these new laws. The perfect […]
Governor Ducey Kicks Off Victims’ Rights Week With Signing Ceremonies For Two Victims’ Rights Bills
Bills Will Help Protect Arizonans From Antisemitic Crimes, Strengthen Emergency Orders Of Protection PHOENIX — Governor Doug Ducey today held a ceremonial signing for two bills aimed at strengthening protections for Arizona crime victims. The bill signings kick off Arizona Crime Victims’ Right Week, which recognizes Arizona’s national leadership in establishing constitutional rights for crime […]
Gov. Ducey signs legislation to create a committee to study housing crisis
HB 2674 creates a committee made of lawmakers, homebuilders, landlords and realtors that will look the housing crises over the next 8 months. SOURCE: https://www.azfamily.com/video/2022/04/27/gov-ducey-signs-legislation-create-committee-study-housing-crisis/
Gov. Ducey signs bill to create committee to study housing crisis
PHOENIX (3TV/CBS 5) – Gov. Doug Ducey signed legislation this week that will create a committee to study the housing crisis. At least one critic is calling the bill a “slap in the face” to Arizonans struggling to make ends meet. “We have a situation right now where we’ve got homelessness skyrocketing, rent increasing unlike […]
Legislature creating committee to study Arizona’s housing crisis
PHOENIX — Editor’s Note: The above video is from an earlier broadcast. The Arizona Legislature is creating a study committee to spend the next year examining the state’s housing crisis. House Bill 2674 was initially introduced to create a standardized set of statewide zoning rules that attempted to override housing regulations or restrictions adopted by […]
As developers struggle to keep pace with Arizona housing demand, advocates seek solutions
The Arizona Multihousing Association (AMA) has launched a new program called Arizona Housing for All, which will address the regulatory issues at the local, state, and federal levels to combat the supply and demand issues that are driving up rental prices. Arizona’s population grew by 100,000 last year, or about 300 new residents per day, […]
Legislation Puts Local Exclusionary Zoning on Notice
A new bipartisan piece of legislation proposed by Republican State Representative Steve Kaiser and Democratic State Representative César Chávez would, among other items, preempt municipalities from using zoning regulations to restrict residential development and enact ‘zoning by right’ to simplify and accelerate the process for both traditional single-family and multifamily developments around the state. Bureaucratic […]
Politics Unplugged: Arizona’s Housing Crisis
Arizona is going through a housing crisis. It’s becoming unaffordable to both rent and buy a home in Phoenix and many people are getting priced out. Now two lawmakers—one republican and one democrat– are coming up with a solution. A bill working its way through the legislature would create a study committee to come up […]
Critics say a new bill to increase affordable housing options would revoke zoning rights from cities
It will be another busy week at the state Capitol as lawmakers debate yet more election-related bills, as well as those dealing with masks and other COVID-19-related restrictions. But there are other bills on the agenda, as well. To talk about those and more, The Show spoke with Howard Fischer of Capitol Media Services. SOURCE: […]
Arizona Enters the Upzoning Fray
A proposed bill in the Arizona state legislature “would add tens of millions of dollars to the state’s low-income housing trust fund,” reports Morgan Loew. But, in an unsurprising move, the bill has drawn criticism for its proposed adjustments to the state’s zoning laws from opponents who worry about the effects of eliminating single-family zoning. […]
