housing market

Each jurisdiction applied to be in the program and has unique goals to improve the housing market.

The order does not waive safety standards or any other legal requirements and instead aims to streamline cooperation between agencies involved in permitting like DelDOT, DSHA and local land use authorities.

If implemented, the county could collect 1.25 percent of development construction value that would go to school districts.

The project is a part of a larger subdivision development that the County Planning & Zoning Commission approved in October.

The group will propose an ordinance to the city's planning commission on encouraging mixed-use projects.

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.