Housing Needs Study Committee Closes Out Meeting Schedule In Pierre

Housing Needs Study Committee Closes Out Meeting Schedule In Pierre

PIERRE — The Housing Needs Study Committee of the South Dakota Legislature concluded its meeting work Monday at the State Capitol in Pierre. One idea that seemed to gain a lot of attention was a zero-percent financing Tax Increment Financing plan. District 24 Representative Mike Weisgram thinks that plan could work with some adjustment…

Weisgram also agrees with trying to utilize more manufactured housing…

A good deal of discuss centered on the Governor’s House program and trying to expand their production to other of the state’s correctional facilities. Following through on that is something Representative Jamie Smith would like to see…

While the meetings are done, the Committee’s work is just beginning in coordinating ideas into legislation to bring to the 2022 Legislative session.