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Nevada launches affordable housing initiative
Thursday, April 14, 2022
That program is meant to offer reasonably priced, accessible housing for almost 13,000 households, mentioned U.S. Rep. Dina Titus, D-Nev.
It’s funded by $500 million in American Rescue Plan Act money from the federal authorities. The administration and the Legislative Interim Finance Committee have already accepted spending $250 million of that complete.
Sisolak mentioned the state is able to start accepting purposes for housing initiatives.
Of that complete, $300 million is deliberate as stand-alone funding for multi-family housing items that would produce as much as 1,000 new items for households and seniors incomes lower than 60 % of the world median earnings and as much as 20 % of the items for these incomes lower than that. That funding would maintain these items within the reasonably priced worth vary for 30 years.
One other $130 million can be devoted to rehabilitate and protect greater than 3,000 items for households and seniors incomes lower than 60 % of AMI. These items too can be categorized and priced to maintain them reasonably priced.
Land acquisition would have $40 million devoted to it and will safe sufficient property to create as much as 800 items of reasonably priced housing.
The ultimate pot of $30 million would turn out to be an incentive program to lower the price of new properties from $500,000 to $350,000 utilizing mechanisms resembling down cost help to extend dwelling possession. A part of that cash can be earmarked for rehabilitation of as much as 7,000 current single-family properties.
Sisolak mentioned purposes for reasonably priced housing initiatives are actually out there on NevadaRecovers.com.
Along with Titus, he was joined by Reps. Susie Lee and Steven Horsford, each D-Nev., and Deputy Housing and City Growth Secretary Adrianne Todman.
Todman described reasonably priced housing is a precedence for the Biden administration and a major factor of the ARPA funding plan.
Lee mentioned the pandemic solely intensified Nevada’s housing disaster. She mentioned the Residence Means Nevada initiative is one other step to ease the burden on working households and susceptible populations.
And Horsford mentioned equitable distribution of those federal {dollars} will improve the variety of reasonably priced items out there within the state and, “go a good distance towards decreasing the price of residing.”
Senate Majority Chief Nicole Cannizzaro and Assemblyman Steve Yeager additionally praised the plan as an historic funding that can make an enormous distinction for working households.
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Baja Nevada starts in Mesquite – The Progress
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Debates don’t tend to have a lasting impact. Could last week’s be different?
While last week’s debate prompted further concerns about President Joe Biden’s cognitive fitness among pundits and some national Democrats, both Nevada Democrats and Republicans are shying away from the topic on the campaign trail.
Debates and campaign events usually have only temporary effects, according to Dan Lee, a political science professor at UNLV. Polls might change, but the effects dissipate over a couple of weeks, he said. Bigger predictors of election outcomes are partisanship and the state of the economy, he said.
But last week’s debate is different, Lee said. It was not like Biden gave a bad answer; rather, it brought up questions about his ability to be president, he said.
“Debates tend not to have lasting effects, but because this debate was more, you know, highlighting his perceived shortcomings in terms of his cognitive capabilities, that’s kind of something that could stick and what Democrats are worried about,” Lee said.
Voters have long expressed their concerns about both presidential candidates’ ages and ambivalence over the rematch. The debate heightened those concerns. A recent CBS News poll, for instance, found that 72 percent of 1,130 registered voters surveyed — including many Democrats — do not think Biden has the mental and cognitive health to serve as president. The poll had a margin of error of plus or minus 4.2 percentage points.
Texas Rep. Lloyd Doggett became the first Democratic lawmaker to publicly call on Biden to withdraw from the 2024 election. He cited multiple polls showing Biden running substantially behind Democratic senators in key states.
“I had hoped that the debate would provide some momentum to change that,” he said in a statement Tuesday. “It did not. Instead of reassuring voters, the President failed to effectively defend his many accomplishments and expose Trump’s many lies.”
Nevada campaigning to shy away from cognitive concerns
Nevada Democrats, however, are sticking with the president — though Sen. Jacky Rosen and other candidates have been maintaining a distance from the president, who has not polled well in Nevada — and the Nevada Republican Party does not plan to focus on Biden’s health as a top campaign strategy.
The state’s Democrats have been focusing on the actions the Biden administration has taken, from investing in affordable housing and infrastructure and trying to lower health care costs.
Democratic Rep. Dina Titus, who has campaigned for Biden and was named to his re-election advisory board, stands by the president.
“I’ve known him, I’ve supported him, I’ve worked with him for a long time,” Titus said. “And do I wish he’d have been stronger? Of course. Do I wish he’d have called out the lies better? Yes. Do I wish he’d focused on all the good things the Democrats have done under his leadership? Yes. But you’ve got to remember, you can’t just focus on the superficial.”
Instead, you have to focus on the substance, she said.
“You play the hand you’re dealt, and that’s what we’re going to do,” she said. Democrats’ goal is to show Nevadans who Biden really is and what he’s accomplished.
A spokesperson for Sen. Jacky Rosen’s campaign painted the election as a choice between an administration “focused on lowering costs, growing the middle class, and restoring reproductive freedom” and “Trump’s MAGA agenda,” while distancing her from the president.
“Senator Rosen is focused on her own reelection campaign and continuing her track record as one of the most bipartisan, independent, and effective Senators,” the spokesperson said in a statement.
‘Feel sorry’
Nevada GOP Chairman Michael McDonald told the Review-Journal he felt sorry for Biden.
“I know he had a bad night, but I think it’s deeper than that,” he said Monday. “I feel sorry for his family. It’s a major concern of who is running the country right now.”
That said, the Republican Party won’t focus on those cognitive concerns at a state level, said McDonald, who took on the role as senior campaign adviser for the Trump campaign.
Rather, McDonald said, the party will push on Trump’s record of helping working people and will highlight his plans and outlook for the future.
“We’re going to show the difference between the two,” he said.
Contact Jessica Hill at jehill@reviewjournal.com. Follow @jess_hillyeah on X.
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Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada hosting back to school vaccine clinic
RENO, Nev. (KOLO) – Catholic Charities of Northern Nevada will be hosting a series of back-to-school vaccine clinics in the month of July.
The clinic will be for kids over the age of five, but under the age of 19.
“Our commitment to keeping our clients and their communities healthy includes ensuring everyone has access to health and wellness resources, including vaccines,” said Marie Baxter, CEO of Catholic Charites of Northern Nevada.
The clinics will be held at these locations, dates and times:
- Moana Neighborhood Center – Saturday, July 6 from 10 am to 2 pm at the Moana Neighborhood Center located at 480 E. Moana Lane.
- North Valleys Neighborhood Center – Monday, July 8 from 1 to 4 pm at the North Valleys Neighborhood Center located at 440 E. Golden Valley Road.
- Sun Valley Neighborhood Center – Friday, July 12 from 1 to 4 pm at the Sun Valley Neighborhood Center located at 130 West Gepford Parkway.
- Fernley Boys & Girls Club of Truckee Meadows – Saturday, July 20 from 9 am to 12 pm at the Fernley Boys & Girls Club located at 396 US Highway 95a South, Suite 401.
Qualifying criteria include children ages 5-19 who are eligible for the VFC program if they are uninsured, Medicaid-eligible or Medicaid-enrolled, American Indian or Alaska Native, or underinsured. Parents must be present and, if possible, provide shot record information.
Out-of-state residents must show proof of vaccination to qualify.
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