Affordable-housing measure gets approval from council

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The Howard County Council agreed to let the Housing Commission partner for funding to build housing on commercial land, but limited which areas and how much commercial land it could develop.

The amended version of a measure aimed at increasing affordable housing was called “a compromise” by council members, who addressed concerns that too much commercial land would be lost to housing.

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