Members of the City of Lawrence’s Housing Initiatives Division requested the city spend $8.29 million left from federal COVID-19 relief funds on housing solutions, but city commissioners stopped short of adopting that recommendation. Though commissioners showed an interest in plans to spend a little more than half of that total on a modular housing project, they are allowing other agencies to vie for some of the American Rescue Plan Act funds. “While I felt like a good portion of these funds should address our needs for affordable housing and … addressing issues of the unhoused, I did not anticipate us using all of that funding for that,” Commissioner Amber Sellers said. “I think there’s some opportunities to trim some things up from these other projects to be able to give us an opportunity to see if there (are) other projects in the community … that fit the tenets of our strategic plan as well.”
Source: The Lawrence Times
