Delaware Workforce Housing and Streamlined Development Act

Status: HopperState: DelawareIssue: Housing

Summary

The bill creates a workforce housing initiative for mixed-income developments near jobs and transit, offering coordinated, time-limited state review while retaining local zoning, public notice, environmental review, and affordability rules. Assistance and infrastructure priority would depend on legislative funding.

Full text

This Act establishes a Delaware Workforce Housing Initiative to support mixed-income residential developments near major employment centers and transit corridors. It directs the relevant state agencies to create a coordinated, time-limited review process for eligible projects that reserve a portion of units for households within specified income ranges, while preserving local zoning authority, public notice, environmental review, and affordability requirements. The Act may provide technical assistance and prioritize existing infrastructure for qualifying developments, subject to funding authorized by the General Assembly.

Sponsor

Ellie GrahamDemocratic Party

Cosponsors

None yet

Results

This bill has not reached a completed state yet. Results and disposition history will appear here when available.