housing market

Chapel Branch Apartments will be the first new affordable housing since 2003.

The program helped close to 40 families buy new homes.

The project-based vouchers are spread between nine communities in Kent and Sussex Counties.

Delaware's Community Legal Aid Society acts as the state's Protection and Advocacy system.

Panelists from each county and the state agree the path forward is to increase supply and build more.

The bipartisan legislative package filed on Thursday known as "The Housing Agenda" aims to incentivize public and private investments in new construction, bolster existing state programs and create new opportunities for higher density development in Delaware.

Federal data shows the price of homes in Delaware has risen this year more than in almost anywhere else in the country.The First State is second only to…