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Slow progress made to address affordable housing shortage
About 1 in 4 homeowners in Hall County are cost-burdened
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City of Gainesville housing director Chris Davis surveys the recently completed Northwestern Cottages off Mill Street in Gainesville. The cottages are built specifically for low-income home buyers.
There’s nothing quite like seeing a project come to fruition. That’s a feeling Chris Davis, Gainesville’s housing manager, has relished in recent weeks as the final touches are being made to a cluster of affordable homes on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard near Mill Street. It marks a small, but important, dent in the city’s affordable housing crunch, which The Times explored in a January series: Home in Hard Places.