Affordable Housing

State lawmakers are moving to give churches the ability to make deals with developers to build homes on their property -- and do so without having to comply with many local zoning regulations.

Gov. Katie Hobbs is now offering up her own plan to override some city regulations to allow for more "starter homes.''

State lawmakers want to give churches, synagogues, mosques and other nonprofit religious institutions the ability to use their land to build what are supposed to be affordable homes -- and do it regardless of whether those projects conflict with area zoning.