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Editorial: To fix affordable housing issue, officials must convince residents it needs fixing
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Sarah Kirsch, executive director of the Urban Land Institute Atlanta, speaks during a housing forum at Gainesville Municipal Court on Tuesday, March 12, 2019. The community meeting focused on challenges and solutions to affordable housing locally. - photo by Austin Steele
A panel from the Urban Land Institute, in town at the bequest of the United Way to look at the need for “affordable housing,” found that households with incomes less than $60,000 may have a hard time finding a home in the county.The annual median household income for Hall County residents? $55,622 according to the U.S. Census Bureau.The lack of housing on the lower end of the expense spectrum has been a much discussed issue for the past several years.