ARP: Eagle CO, Funds Affordable Housing Solutions
Idea Category: Housing | Funding Source: American Rescue Plan
Roberts helped develop broad housing goals with fellow lawmakers in Colorado to utilize their ARP funds, specifically the legislature’s Affordable Housing Task Force recommendations to invest in a revolving loan fund, resident-owned communities, and related services. The Affordable Housing Task Force, chaired by Representative Dylan Roberts, successfully turned the task force’s recommendations into action over the summer and had five bills signed into law that will utilize a total of $428 million in ARP funds towards housing solutions.
Representative Roberts’ authored bill creates new grant programs and provides $178 million to help communities invest in affordable housing grant projects and related services and to sustainably develop vacant land. The other bills will encourage new investments in modular, prefabricated, and manufactured homes; expand finance and loan opportunities for affordable housing developers; and provide grants to local governments and nonprofits to buy land and develop affordable housing projects themselves.
More Idea’s From Dylan Roberts
Innovative State Financing for Affordable Homeownership Development
Idea Category: 2025 Ideas Challenge, Building & Development | Funding Source: ARP
Colorado State Senator Dylan Roberts Expands Clean Energy Definition to Include Nuclear Power
Idea Category: Clean Energy | Funding Source: ARP
Colorado Senator Dylan Roberts’s Legislation to Support the Development of Affordable Housing Signed Into Law
Idea Category: Housing | Funding Source: ARP
Colorado Senator Dylan Roberts’s Bill Expanding Care for Seniors Was Signed Into Law
Idea Category: Senior Care | Funding Source: ARP
Colorado Senator Dylan Roberts’ Equal Justice Fund Authority Bill, was Signed Into Law, Adding Roughly $2M in Funding for Free Legal Services to Low-Income Coloradans
Idea Category: Criminal Justice | Funding Source: ARP
Colorado Senator Dylan Roberts and Representative Meghan Lukens Sponsored Bills to Provide Tax Credits for Passenger Rail and Small Businesses in Rural Colorado
Idea Category: Rural Development, Small Business, Transportation | Funding Source: ARP
Colorado Senator Dylan Roberts Guided Ten Water-Related Bills to Governor’s Desk
Idea Category: Conservation, Environment, Water | Funding Source: ARP
Senator Dylan Roberts Highlighted Colorado Water Conservation Victories
Idea Category: Environment, Indigenous Rights | Funding Source: ARP
Jump-starting Rural Businesses and Economies
Idea Category: Jobs and Entrepreneurship | Funding Source: ARP
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