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Orange County Board of County Commissioners Approves Affordable Housing on Land Owned by Religious Institutions
Orange County, FL — Orange County’s Board of County Commissioners today approved a new program allowing religious institutions to put affordable housing units on their property with a streamlined approval process.
Orange County’s Affordable Housing for Religious Institutional Lands (AHRIL) program is enabled by a new state law that supporters have informally dubbed the “Yes In God’s Backyard” (YIGBY) law. The law allows local governments to approve affordable housing on qualifying religious-institution property even if residential development would not normally be permitted under current zoning.
Orange County’s AHRIL program goes beyond state minimum requirements by mandating that 100% of units meet Orange County affordability standards. AHRIL is another strategy under the County’s Housing for All 10-Year Action Plan, advancing its goal of producing or preserving 11,000 affordable housing units by 2030.
Learn more about the program through this FAQs sheet: https://ocfl.box.com/s/brq6q8wuio0k70xuji6lpxpcny436cbi
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