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.

A sweeping proposal that would strip larger Arizona cities and towns of the right to set standards for single family home lot and building sizes and bar their ability to set design standards or require features like fencing or garages that was vetoed by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs last year after massive pressure from cities and towns is back -- with only minor changes.

Gov. Katie Hobbs touted a program to help first-time home buyers Thursday even as she acknowledged it only scratches the surface of the need for affordable housing in Arizona.

Gov. Katie Hobbs said Thursday she has no solution to the problem of available housing being converted into vacation rentals.

Arizona State University’s Morrison Institute for Public Policy has released a series of reports on housing insecurity focused on six counties in Arizona.THE BROKEN LINK Experiences of Housing Insecurity in Yuma County is one of them.

10,000 people in the U.S. turn 65 every day and more of the nation’s population will live well into their 80s, an age at which there is considerable…