Board of County Commissioners take first steps on establishing an Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The Board of County Commissioners agreed to move forward establishing a future Affordable Housing Trust Fund. Washoe County has been working with Acting in Community Together in Organizing Northern Nevada (ACTIONN), who has been coordinating community meetings and researching best practices for establishing an Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The preliminary discussion led by Assistant County Manager Kate Thomas, established that Washoe County plans to work to address the growing need for affordable housing in the community by creating an Affordable Housing Trust Fund (AHTF), how the AHTF will be funded, who will administer the fund and what or who the fund will support.

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