Affordable Housing

Sen. John Kavanagh thinks he's found a way to convert the problems of few affordable rentals and too many schools into a solution: Allow those schools to be sold off or leased to be made into housing for teachers and other government and critical workers.

Senator Ruben Gallego was back for another year at "Somerton's Super Bowl". He judged tamales and discussed lowering prices for Arizona residents and the partial release of the Epstein Files, for which he's been a vocal critic.

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.