The idea from the city’s perspective is simple, by waiving these fees, leaders hope people will use that money to put back into their homes, improving property values, hopefully opening up more current homes to rent or making it easier for new housing to be built. “We need many more affordable units, but we just need housing in general. This helps take care of the stock that we have, hopefully, build on some of those open lots and again, with saving folks’ money on doing that. Hopefully we see a shot in the arm to really help them,” said Johnson.
Source: KAKE – News
